[ 2012-06-15 ]

Horrific: Feng Jianmei said she was forceably injected with a chemical to induce an abortion and her child was stillborn 36 hours later

China 'forces pregant woman to have an abortion for breaching one-child policy'
A seven month pregnant woman was forced to abort
her baby in China for breaching the one-child
policy.

The mother, Feng Jianmei, told local media that
she was forceably injected with a chemical to
induce an abortion and her child was stillborn 36
hours later.

Because she already had a child, said Feng, local
birth-control authorities ordered her to pay a
fine of £4,000.

She didn't have the money, she said, so a team
from the local family planning authority in
Shannxi province came to collect her from her home
and take her to hospital for the forced abortion.

Recounting the horror, Feng said she told the
family planning department she could not pay the
fine because her mother-in-law needed money for
cancer treatment.

It was then, she claimed, the authorities began
their action against her.
She said no less than 20 staff from the family
planning department came to her home and placed
her under arrest.

As they drove her to the hospital for a forced
abortion, she began to resist - resulting in her
being beaten.

At the hospital she was restrained and given an
injection that would be lethal to the foetus. None
of her family was allowed to be present during the
traumatic time, she said.

Feng said that her father-in-law heard about her
being taken away but when he rushed to the
hospital he was prevented from entering the
obstetrics ward.

As outrage spread around anti-abortion groups in
China, the authorities strenuously denied Feng's
version of the events.

Li Yuongjou, deputy chief of Ankang's family
department, said the reality was that 'Feng was
not forced to abort'.

He said: 'A lot of us tried for days to educate
her. She agreed to the abortion herself.'

He added that in China an abortion is allowed up
to 28 weeks, saying: 'It's not illegal to conduct
"medium term" induction of labour.'

And he admitted, however, that in his town the
local target of enforcing the one-child policy had
not been achieved for two consecutive years and
the authorities were acting more strenuously to
see that the target covering 95 per cent of the
population was reached.

Local media said it was most likely that Feng had
been injected with a chemical commonly known as
Lifannuo - a powerful bactericide used in the late
1980s and early 1990s when China's one-child
policy was strongly pursued by authorities.

It is not known how Feng managed to obtain photos
of herself beside the aborted child, but
anti-abortion groups said they were convinced the
pictures were genuine.

Source - Dailymail.co.uk

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