Legal Opinion
Fei Mei Cheng v. Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 6, 2010No. 09-2022PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge:
Fei Mei Cheng (“Cheng”) is a citizen and native of China. While living in China’s Fujian Province, Cheng became pregnant but under Chinese law was too young to marry her boyfriend. Over the course of her pregnancy, local family planning officials employed a pattern of escalating threats in an effort to persuade her to abort the pregnancy, but Cheng resisted and gave birth to a daughter. In response to her resistance to the population control laws and to induce her to undergo a sterilization procedure, the officials confiscated the family farm and…
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