Pregnant newly-wed told to have abortion
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A schoolteacher who fulfilled procedures to have an additional child in her hometown has been ordered to have an abortion because the province where she is teaching has different rules.
The case illustrates how different areas have different family planning regulations and how unyielding China’s birth control efforts continue to be despite a recent loosening in the 35-year-old one-child policy to allow more couples to have two children.
Both Qin Yi and her husband Meng Shaoping had a daughter with their previous spouses. It means that the newly married couple will have three children if they go ahead to give birth to their own child according to southwestern Guizhou Province’s regulations, said the education bureau and health and family planning commission in Guizhou’s Libo County.
Qin must have an abortion by the end of the month otherwise she will be fired, said a notice circulated online and carried by a local newspaper, which reported that Qin is five months pregnant.
An official from the county’s health and family planning commission confirmed the case yesterday.
Qin and Meng fulfilled procedures to have a child from authorities in Huangshan City in eastern Anhui Province, where her residency is registered, said the officer.
The authority is investigating whether Qin transferred her residency to Anhui earlier this year in order to comply with the rules to give birth, the official said.
Anhui Province allows couples to have a child if they don’t have more than two children from previous marriages, whereas Guizhou only lets a couple to have a child if there is just one previous child.
Different areas draw up their own rules that fit into a national policy. In late 2013, China’s leadership announced it would allow two children for families in which one parent is an only child, and different provinces and cities have implemented the change at different paces.
China credits the one-child policy as preventing 400 million births in the past more than three decades. But now many demographers are warning that the birth rate has started to fall as the economy developed and education levels rose.
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