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Officials dismiss online claim of forced abortion
By Li Qian |
June 13, 2012, Wednesday
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Family planning officials in a rural county in northwest Shaanxi Province denied that they forced a woman to abort her second baby, saying she agreed to terminate her seven-month pregnancy.
Feng Jianmei, 23, was married to a man in Zhenping County in 2006 and gave birth to a girl the next year. When she was found pregnant again early this year, the officials urged her to have an abortion because she violated the country's one-child policy.
They said they even contacted her hometown in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to check if she was qualified to have a second child.
Through persuasion, Feng agreed to undergo induced labor, the Zhenping County Family Planning Commission said in response to an accusation posted on the Internet.
The Chinese government adopted the one-child policy in 1979 to curb its population growth. Couples are allowed to have a second child under certain conditions such as when both spouses are from single-child families or their first child is disabled.
Feng Jianmei, 23, was married to a man in Zhenping County in 2006 and gave birth to a girl the next year. When she was found pregnant again early this year, the officials urged her to have an abortion because she violated the country's one-child policy.
They said they even contacted her hometown in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to check if she was qualified to have a second child.
Through persuasion, Feng agreed to undergo induced labor, the Zhenping County Family Planning Commission said in response to an accusation posted on the Internet.
The Chinese government adopted the one-child policy in 1979 to curb its population growth. Couples are allowed to have a second child under certain conditions such as when both spouses are from single-child families or their first child is disabled.
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