Huang Sue-ying

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

Huang Sue-ying

MLY
黃淑英
Huang in September 2013
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office
1 February 2005 – 31 January 2012
ConstituencyRepublic of China
Personal details
Born (1951-04-12) 12 April 1951
Taipei, Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
Alma materFu Jen Catholic University
University of British Columbia
Occupationpolitician

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]

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