Ling Chai, the former Chinese dissident leader during the Tiananmen massacre, has found a new calling. She now works to to end China's One-Child Policy. "The brutal and violent enforcement of the one-child policy is the largest crime against humanity," Chai told a crowded room of about 100 people. "It is the inhumane secret slaughter against mothers and babies; it is a Tiananmen massacre taking place every hour."
Chai went into hiding after the protests in Hong Kong and fled for the United States in 1990. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In November 2009, however, Ling's activism was transformed when she learned about the effects of China's One-Child Policy. Chai said she was helping serve as an interpreter at a congressional hearing about the policy, when she heard graphic testimony of a Chinese woman dragged to an abortion clinic by local officials.
Chai said she experienced a "spiritual transformation" from that moment. She said she became a Christian in December 2009 and that helped her understand hope amid evil. She launched a nonprofit advocating against the One-Child Policy, All Girls Allowed, in June 2010. The World Health Organization reported over 500 female suicides per day in China in 2008, the only country in the world in which more women take their lives than men. ABC News
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