China trying to force 6-month pregnant woman to abort

[babylonsister]

China trying to force 6-month pregnant woman to abort
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers


BEIJING _ A Muslim Uighur woman who is more than six months pregnant remained under watch in a hospital in China’s far northwest Friday awaiting a forced abortion by authorities who don't want her to have a third child.

A nurse tending to the woman at the maternity ward of a hospital in Yining, near China’s border with Kazakhstan, said physicians had delayed performing the abortion because of international queries about her case.

China maintains a one-child-per-family rule on majority Han Chinese, with more flexible rules for ethnic minorities, to contain its massive population of 1.3 billion citizens.

Those who violate the rule must pay large fines, although reports of zealous officials ordering forced abortions in rural and semi-rural areas are fairly common.

The case of Arzigul Tursun is raising attention because she is 26 weeks pregnant and supporters say an abortion could threaten her health. Her husband, who goes by the single name Nurmemet, said officials in their village near Yining learned of the pregnancy and warned the couple their house and property would be seized if Arzigul did not undergo an abortion.

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[lostnfound]

1. Horrible. nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. This is all kinds of wrong

A complete and utter violation of fundamental human rights.

[gollygee]

3. How terrible - and this is the other side of the anti-choice movement

Not allowing women to control their bodies doesn't necessarily mean fewer abortions. It depends on the views of the people in control of the government at that time.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. A Congressman has written the Chinese Ambassador

"U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, wrote China’s ambassador to Washington, Zhou Wenzhong, Thursday to demand that “the nightmare of a forced abortion” not be carried out.

"The Chinese Government is notorious for this barbaric practice, but to forcibly abort a woman while the world watches in full knowledge of what is going on would make a mockery of its claim that the central government disapproves of the practice,” Smith said in a statement."

Why do women's bodies have to be a political battlefield all the time?

[tanyev]

5. And when will outraged fundies organize a boycott of China's largest foreign retailer--Wal-Mart?

[babylonsister]

8. Good question: where ARE the outraged fundies to begin with? nt

[mirror wall]

6. Man what a fucking nightmare. n/t

[cobalt1999]

7. I'm all for population control, but like any good idea taken too far...

Abusive.

[pinstikfartherin]

9. How horrible.

I just wrote about this in my Anthropology class for an assignment. All the fundies cry foul about abortions here, but where is the movement against forced abortions in China? You can see how much they truly care... fucktards.