Chinese women and their families are likely to continue to suffer the pain and anguish of forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, and crippling financial penalties under China’s new two-child policy, just as they have been under the 35-year-old one-child policy.
The decision to allow all Chinese families two children is more about maintaining social harmony than an attempt to handle the aging crisis.
Communist cadres in Shandong Province found that they could outsource the paperwork associated with forced abortions to business-wise middlemen.
A 25-year-old unmarried woman was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a clinic to give her an abortion.
Chinese women and their families are likely to continue to suffer the pain and anguish of forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, and crippling financial penalties under China’s new two-child policy, just as they have been under the 35-year-old one-child policy.
The decision to allow all Chinese families two children is more about maintaining social harmony than an attempt to handle the aging crisis.
Communist cadres in Shandong Province found that they could outsource the paperwork associated with forced abortions to business-wise middlemen.
A 25-year-old unmarried woman was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a clinic to give her an abortion.