Stacy Long

AFA Journal staff writer

July-August 2013 – Since 1980, 37 million baby girls have died in China; 37 million men have lost a future girlfriend or wife to gendercide, abortion because a baby is female. In the country that makes up one-fifth of the world’s population, one out of every six girls conceived will not live to see her first birthday. 

For years, China has been wracked by forced abortion, infanticide and abandoned, trafficked children – and it seemed there was little to be done about it. But All Girls Allowed is proving otherwise.

Impact: Congress, church, world
“All Girls Allowed was launched June 1, 2010,” executive director Brian Lee told AFA Journal. “In June 2011, we put together the bi-partisan Coalition to End Gendercide. It is our conviction that started the movement in Congress to come against gendercide, even domestically.”

In addition, Lee attributed the worldwide outrage over a recent forced abortion case to the power of prayer, fostered by work with the church in China. 

“All Girls Allowed is coming alongside the church in China to fight gendercide,” he explained. “We’ve been teaching churches a message they may never have heard before, that they are disobeying the Lord [by killing their children].

“Last June, about 500 pastors gathered in Hong Kong, crying out to God about the great tragedy and massacre. The very next day, the story of Feng Janmei, whose seven-month-old preborn baby was forcibly aborted, got into the news all across the world, unlike anything before. We attribute the uproar to those pastors’ act of repentance, because there have been other cases like Feng Janmei’s but none had the same spotlight.”

Mission: expose, rescue, heal
All Girls Allowed fights gendercide on three levels, working first to expose its devastating results. While 1.1 million girls die every year, the surplus of men has caused army enlistment, expansionist tendencies in foreign relations, crime rates and sex trafficking to escalate. In addition, economists from Harvard and Columbia University indicate the situation has contributed to decline in the global economy, as explained on allgirlsallowed.org: “A surplus of men leads to higher rates of savings [because single men spend less], which drives down currency value and leads to a trade surplus for China (and a trade deficit for other countries).” 

So, China’s problem becomes the world’s problem and, with All Girls Allowed’s rescue initiative, there is something the world can do about it. Lee urged people to educate themselves on the issue, to pray, and to join All Girls Allowed as a volunteer or employee and donate. Opportunities featured on the website include a “37 Seconds” event to raise awareness, a “Baby Shower” donation to sustain a baby girl, and press releases to distribute. 

“It is important for the press to know their constituents want to know about forced abortion, gendercide, the one child policy,” Lee said. “The press doesn’t realize how much China watches it. But China watches, and it squirms.” 

Finally, ministry is paramount as All Girls Allowed works to heal: healing women from the wounds of gendercide, abortion and sex slavery, and ultimately healing China’s people by answering their desperate need for Jesus Christ.  

Chai Ling is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of A Heart for Freedom. She was “commander-in-chief” of the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square. On China’s most wanted list, she fled to America. At a 2009 U.S. congressional hearing on the one-child policy, a woman’s testimony of restoration through Jesus Christ captured Ling’s attention. Three weeks later, she gave her life to Jesus; six months later she founded All Girls Allowed (www.allgirlsallowed.org or 617-492-9099 ext. 236).