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The Problem of Coerced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

JING-BAO NIE
Affiliation:
Hunan College of Chinese Medicine, China, and the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota

Abstract

Since the early 1970s, despite popular opposition, to control the rapid growth of population the Chinese government has been carrying out the strictest and most comprehensive family planning policy in the world. In addition to contraceptive methods and sterilization, artificial abortion—both surgical and nonsurgical—has been used as an important measure of birth control under the policy. Many women have been required, persuaded, and even forced by the authorities to abort fetuses no matter how much they want to give birth.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: THE MORALITY OF ABORTION
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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