The White House today addressed Vice President Biden’s controversial comments concerning China’s one-child policy.
From a spokesman:
“The Obama Administration strongly opposes all aspects of China’s coercive birth limitation policies, including forced abortion and sterilization.”
The spokesman added that Biden found the policy ‘repugnant’ and was trying to point out to the Chinese that the one-child policy was economically unsustainable.
Speaker of the House John Boehner issued a statement asking Biden to clarify his words.
GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry and Mitt Romney followed up with their own statements criticizing the Vice-President’s remarks.
Jon Huntsman’s campaign also followed up with a statement:
“As an adoptive father, whose daughter was abandoned by her parents in China, Gov. Huntsman is intimately familiar with the impact of China’s ‘one-child’ policy. As someone who is firmly pro-life, he feels the policy runs counter to the fundamental value of human life and is heartbroken by the destructive nature of the policy that has cost millions of lives.”
