Huang Sue-ying explained

Huang Sue-ying
Native Name Lang:zh-tw
Honorific-Suffix:MLY
Smallimage:台灣民間團體就兩岸服貿協議召開記者會 03.jpg
Order:Member of the Legislative Yuan
Constituency:Republic of China
Term Start:1 February 2005
Term End:31 January 2012
Birth Date:1951 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Taipei, Taiwan
Party:Democratic Progressive Party
Nationality:Taiwanese
Alma Mater:Fu Jen Catholic University
University of British Columbia
Occupation:politician

Huang Sue-ying (; born 12 April 1951) is a Taiwanese activist and politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2012.

Education

Huang earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Fu Jen Catholic University and later earned a master's degree in animal science from the University of British Columbia.[1]

Career

Huang is the founding leader of Taiwan Women’s Link, a women's rights organization.[2] [3] She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2004 as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party via party list proportional representation. During her first term, Huang proposed an amendment to the Genetic Health Law introducing an insurance fund to help cover costs of abortion.[4] She also helped draft an anti-discrimination law.[5] [6] In 2010, she co-sponsored the Act Governing Breastfeeding in Public Places, passed in November.[7] [8] The next year, Huang proposed changes to the Social Order Maintenance Act that would punish clients of sex workers, not sex workers themselves.[9] [10] Huang's amendment was rejected in November 2011.[11] She also supported reform on labor standards to decrease the risk of overwork in the private security and medical industries.[12] [13] Huang ran for a third term in 2012, again on the party list, but was not reelected.[14] Subsequently. Huang returned to the Taiwan Women's Link and also joined the National Health Insurance Civilian Surveillance Alliance.[15] [16]

Over the course of her legislative tenure, Huang was regarded by the Citizen's Congress Watch as a top legislator.[17] [18] [19] [20] She has been subject to multiple physical attacks by fellow lawmakers.[21] [22]

Political stances

In August 2003, she expressed support for the Ministry of Education's After-school Child Care Initiative, which sought to provide government-funded after school programs for students.[23] Huang opposed the 2004 reclassification of birth control pills as over-the-counter medication, believing that easy access to contraceptives would lead to a decrease in condom usage.[24] She backed efforts to increase access to abortions, supporting a lowering of the age, from 20 to 18, when the operation could be legally considered.[25]

As a legislator, Huang maintained an interest in healthcare.[26] [27] [28] Huang was often critical of the Department of Health, speaking out against efforts to relax restrictions on United States beef imports to Taiwan and condemning the approval of medications with severe side effects.[29] [30] She has worked to uphold familial privacy regulations,[31] and called for a subsidy given to married parents to be expanded to single mothers.[32]

After leaving the Legislative Yuan, Huang has drawn attention to understaffed hospitals,[33] and repeatedly called for Japan to apologize for the use of comfort women during World War II.[34] [35] [36] Huang criticized the addition of supplementary premiums to National Health Insurance.[37] She has derided a voluntary certification program meant for aesthetic medical facilities as ineffective.[38] [39] Huang is strongly opposed to the use of assisted reproductive technology,[40] [41] in particular the legalization of surrogacy, describing the practice, as "slighting others' risks and rights just to fulfill the needs of some."[42] She has also commented on the economic inequality within the process, stating, "A woman’s body is not a commodity or a tool. We oppose rich people exploiting poor women and buying them as surrogate mothers."[43]

Notes and References

  1. News: Huang Sue-ying (6). 23 July 2017. Legislative Yuan.
  2. News: Chang . Joy . Why college students in Taiwan hesitate to report sexual harassment . 16 September 2018 . Taipei Times . 11 July 2018.
  3. News: Lee . I-chia . As HPV vaccine program looms, groups call for official reporting mechanism . Taipei Times . 16 September 2018.
  4. News: Oung. Angelica. Legislature mulls changes to abortion rules. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 5 January 2007.
  5. News: Draft bill on discrimination. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 23 September 2007.
  6. News: Shih. Hsiu-chuan. Legislature passes anti-discrimination bill. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 5 May 2007.
  7. News: Hsu. Jenny W.. Taipei allows public breastfeeding. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 27 March 2010.
  8. News: Wang. Flora. Breastfeeding act passes into law. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 10 November 2010.
  9. News: Loa. Iok-sin. Group calls for vote on sex trade legality. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 9 April 2011.
  10. News: Loa. Iok-sin. Sex workers slam party inaction. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 4 November 2011.
  11. News: Shih. Hsiu-chuan. Red-light district sex work now legal. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 5 November 2011.
  12. News: Huang. Shelley. Death by overwork in spotlight. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 2 March 2011.
  13. News: Lawmaker seeks a legal limit on hours doctors can work. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 13 November 2011.
  14. News: Chao. Vincent Y.. Chen criticizes DPP's list of at-large nominees. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 13 July 2011.
  15. News: Hsiao. Alison. Pharmacist associations urge current law be upheld. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 21 June 2013.
  16. News: Hsiao. Alison. Alliance questions quality of medicine certifications. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 31 December 2013.
  17. News: Wang. Flora. Watchdog releases report on legislature. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 21 July 2008.
  18. News: Wang. Flora. Citizen Congress Watch releases legislative report. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 8 March 2010.
  19. News: Loa. Iok-sin. Citizen Congress Watch praises progress. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 2 March 2009.
  20. News: Tseng. Wei-chen. Legislature went out with whimper. 23 July 2017. Taipei. 12 February 2012.
  21. News: Wang. Flora. Analysis: Taiwan's legislators act like school-yard brawlers. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 6 February 2010.
  22. News: Wang. Flora. Mo. Yan-chih. Legislators brawl over ECFA review. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 9 July 2010.
  23. News: Huang. Sue-ying. Liu. Yi-chieh. MOE plan helps parents and kids. Taipei Times. 12 August 2003.
  24. News: Wu. Debby. Experts split over morning-after pill. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 16 January 2004.
  25. News: Wang. Hsiao-wen. Abortion age to be reconsidered. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 14 November 2004.
  26. News: Huang. Shelley. Legislators review bill to close health insurance loophole. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 21 May 2010.
  27. News: Huang. Shelley. More protection urged for off-label drug users. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 26 May 2010.
  28. News: Wang. Flora. DOH urged to prohibit export of genetic data. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 3 July 2009.
  29. News: Wang. Flora. Lawmaker slams DOH over drugs. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 14 March 2007.
  30. News: Ko. Shu-ling. Shih. Hsiu-chuan. Loa. Iok-sin. US beef deal angers lawmakers. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 27 October 2009.
  31. News: Shih. Hsiu-chuan. Legislative Yuan passes Family Proceedings Act. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 13 December 2011.
  32. News: Chao. Vincent Y.. Local governments bar single-mother subsidies. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 6 January 2011.
  33. News: Hsiao. Alison. Hospitals short on ob/gyn staff: experts. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 8 July 2013.
  34. News: Loa. Iok-sin. Japan must apologize to comfort women: activists. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 15 August 2013.
  35. News: Loa. Iok-sin. Protesters rally to demand justice for comfort women. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 15 August 2014.
  36. News: Gerber. Abraham. Protesters demand Japan apologize to 'comfort women'. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 16 August 2016.
  37. News: Wang. Chris. Critics blast NHI premium regime. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 2 April 2012.
  38. News: Hsiao. Alison. Group accuses DOH of neglecting patients' safety. Taipei Times. 26 May 2013.
  39. News: Hsiao. Alison. Medical facility certificate system is a failure: group. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 25 January 2014.
  40. News: Huang. Sue-ying. Tsai. Wan-fen. Artificial birth plans will only help the rich. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 7 September 2014.
  41. News: Hsu. Stacy. Reproductive assistance scheme faces criticism. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 5 September 2014.
  42. News: Hsiao. Alison. Forum discusses surrogacy draft act. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 10 July 2013.
  43. News: FEATURE: Couples suffer as long as surrogacy remains illegal. 23 July 2017. Taipei Times. 20 July 2013.

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