In 1979 he visited a number of farming villages in Guangdong, at this time the government had just started to implement its "one-child policy." Mosher heard of women seven or eight months pregnant being forced to accept an abortion. It was after he published a report on what he had seen and heard that the troubles began.
一九七九年，他到了廣東農村，大陸正開始實施「一胎化」政策，毛思迪將有些懷孕七、八個月的婦女被迫墮胎的所見所聞寫出來後，有了麻煩。