Forced Abortion

Arzigul Tursun is a Uighur Muslim in northwest China who is twenty-six weeks pregnant and being forced to have an abortion. Tursan and her husband already have twin girls, and this child would make a third. Tursun does not want to have an abortion and has already ran away once. However, when she ran away, her family began receiving threats that everything they owned would be taken by the government if she did not return and have an abortion. Turun and her entire family are against the abortion and believe that she should have the right to have her baby. Due to her point in pregnancy, the abortion could physically damage her, as well as the psychological effects that will follow.

The Chinese government permits the Chinese Han, the majority, to have only one child if they live in an urban area, but the minority groups can have two. In the more rural areas, citizens are allowed up to three children. In Tursun's case though, there is confusion about which she should be labeled. "Arzigul holds a rural household registration but her husband is registered in an urban area..."

The Chinese government has held off on the abortion for a little while because of the international attention. The U.S. has contacted China's ambassador to Washington and tried to persuade him to stop this from happening. It would not be smart for them to persue the abortion with the world knowing what is going on, while China tries to say that they do not approve of forced abortion, even though they admit that the Chinese population would be much larger than what it is now because there have been over 400 million abortion over the past thirty years. Most of these abortions were probably forced. I disagree with abortion to begin with because it is murder, especially when she is far enough along that her baby could survive outside the womb, but when a person is being forced by the government to abort their child, that is beyond words.


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