Blog 5; Migrant Women in China to Receive More Contraceptive Education

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/26/content_13789167.htm

This article addresses abortions that are occurring in migrant women in China. In 2008, there were about 50,000 abortions in mainland China and out of those, 70 percent were migrant women. This issue is mostly by poor information on contraceptives. This issue was also brought to more light because of World Contraceptive Day, September 26. The article states that talking about sex and sex education is not common in Asian societies. This faltering of the government and public is the main cause for misinterpreted contraception information or no information at all. China is however implementing new programs to help its citizens and migrants who do receive abortions to receive more care. This program is a German one called PAC (post-abortion care). This is vital to China because such a big percentage of its citizens and migrants are getting abortions and then needing subsequent surgeries to fix things. These subsequent surgeries are costing the state a lot of money; 470 million US dollars. The PAC program makes sure women receive care from trained nurses to monitor their health after procuring an abortion. This program hopes to not only improve the health of women who get abortions but to also stop recurrent abortions in the same women.

This has been identified as a social problem in China and the government is on their way to implementing ways to fix it. However, it became a problem because Chinese women and migrants to the country are not informed in sex education and contraceptive forms. The article states that Chinese are shy to talk about sex. Shyness is not a sufficient excuse. Talking about contraceptives should be the number one health issue in China because of the population boom. Also, it should be the number one topic since the literal abortions are not 100 percent safe and often require subsequent surgeries.
From the video we watched in class on Japan, maybe the Chinese are similar in their feelings of immigrants. If this is the case, it would make even more sense for contraceptive knowledge and safer abortions to be in place by the government.