China apologizes to pregnant woman forced to have abortion at seven months for breaching one-child policy and suspends three officials
Jaleesha Holden 9/14/2012 2:08pm
In china there is a one-child policy,
by law you are only allowed to have one child because of china’s large
population. China’s population is around 1.3 billion people. In efforts to keep
this policy strictly enforced a group of family planning workers went to a 23-year-old
woman by the name of Feng Jianmei and took her out of her house and to the
hospital. The article talks about the suspension of the family planning workers
that forced this woman to get an abortion. Feng Jianmei reports that she was 7
months pregnant and had a little girl. The
officials had ordered her the family to pay a fine of $6,300 to be paid in
order for the pregnancy to continue. The family did not have the money and reported
by Feng Jianmei that she didn’t have the money for her mother-in-law need the
money for cancer treatment. This woman was injected with a chemical to induce
an abortion and her child was stillborn 36 hours later at a hospital. In
response to the pictures placed on the internet China apologizes to the woman for
the forced abortion. They deny that they forced her, but say that she agreed on
it and that they had talked about this option before. In response to the
incident many people were outraged about the situation and wanted justice.
I feel that nobody should be forced
to get an abortion. I think that it is the right of the individual to decide
whether or not to get an abortion. I feel that the one-child policy in China is
wrong and people should be free to have as many kids as they want. I feel that
China’s population is great and the government should make a way to accommodate
everyone to make it fair and to keep the collectivist prospective fair.
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