Mom allegedly forced to abort mature fetus
By Li Qian |
June 14, 2012, Thursday
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FAMILY planning officials in northwestern Shaanxi Province are probing allegations that a woman was forced to abort her second baby after local authorities claimed she agreed to terminate her seven-month pregnancy.
Feng Jianmei, 23, was married to a rural man in Zhenping County in 2006 and gave birth to a girl the next year. When she was found pregnant again early this year, local officials detained her and threatened her so that she finally agreed to an abortion because she violated the country's one-child policy.
Feng agreed to undergo induced labor on June 2, according to the statement published on the Zhenping Family Planning Commission's website. But the province's Population and Family Planning Bureau said women whose pregnancies go past six months are banned from induced labor. If the allegations are proved to be true, the involved officials will be punished, it said.
Couples are allowed to have a second child under certain conditions, such as both spouses are from single-child families or their first child has a non-inherited disease, according to China's family planning policy. But Feng did not qualify.
According to online posts, Feng was detained for three days and more than 30 officials threatened her to force her to abort the fetus. So great was the pressure, the posts said, that she felt extreme pressure and attempted suicide. On the fourth day, she was taken to the county hospital without being accompanied by relatives.
Local officials were said to ask her husband, 30-year-old Deng Jiyuan, to hand over 40,000 yuan (US$6,276) as a deposit for the surgery. But before Deng's arrival, they coerced the mother-to-be to sign and put her fingerprint on the operation agreement. Feng was injected in the abdomen, which caused the fetus to die of hypoxia, and then underwent the induced labor.
Pictures posted along with the posts showed that the bloody infant's body, which had developed well and grown mature, was placed on a hospital bed near Feng, who stared at the ceiling with dull eyes.
She was overwhelmed by the experience and mooned about all day, the posts said, adding that she smashed the hospital windows on June 5. The posts triggered widespread outrage.
"Violating the birth-control policy is wrong, but local officials didn't take appropriate measures to stop her. Their atrocity is just the same as murder," said the poster identified as Wobushifeizei.
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