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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: Chinese schoolteacher, 5
months pregnant, ordered to abort; then permitted to give birth
Under the One-Child Policy, a Chinese schoolteacher, five
months pregnant, was ordered to abort by the end of May or lose her job. This order has just been reversed,
following domestic and international media attention.
Qin Yi (sometimes translated Tan Yi) and Meng Shaoping were
both divorced and both have daughters from their first marriages. Qin Yi’s residency is in Huangshan City
in Anhui Province, where officials told her that she could have a second child
because she divorced the father of her first child.
She later moved to Libo County, Guizhou Province, because of
her job as a teacher. There, she
was told she must terminate her pregnancy by the end of May or lose her job.
In Anhui, remarried couples can have a child if there are no
more than two children from previous marriages. In Guizhou, however, remarried couples can have a child only
if there is one child from previous marriages.
News of this situation was reported widely in China and
spread internationally, causing outrage.
The Family Planning Commission on the Guizhou provincial level
overturned the local authorities and will allow Qin Yi to have her baby. According to the South China Morning
Post, this case demonstrates “how unyielding the mainland’s birth limits
continue to be despite a loosening in the 35-year-old policy to let more
couples to have two children.”
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without
Frontiers, stated, “We are delighted that Qin Yi and her husband will be
allowed to have their baby. Our
hearts nevertheless go out to this couple because of the harrowing experience
of coming so close to suffering the excruciating pain of a late-term forced
abortion. Their experience
dramatically demonstrates what I’ve been saying all along: China is continuing its horrific
practice of late term forced abortions.
This is savagery and it must be stopped.”
Littlejohn continued, “China has not ‘eased’ its One-Child
Policy. It has merely tweaked
it. The fact that the Chinese
Communist Party is allowing some couples to have a second child does not mean
that they have ceased their appalling methods of enforcement. Couples still need to have a birth
permit for the first and for the second child, or face forced abortion.”
“This case also demonstrates that the One-Child Policy is
not enforced uniformly throughout China.
A pregnancy may be allowed in one province and not allowed in
another. There’s no
uniformity. It’s like the Wild
West when it comes to the coercive enforcement of birth limits,” she added.
“Also, the fact that the CCP reversed its decision and
allowed this couple to have their baby demonstrates that it does in fact
respond to pressure, both domestic and international – despite its
protestations to the contrary – so we need to keep up the pressure,” Littlejohn
concluded.
To sign a petition against forced abortion, click here:
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Forced Abortion – China’s War on Women! Video (4 mins)
Related links:
Chinese woman ordered to have abortion after moving
provinces is allowed to keep child
贵州省卫计委:责令怀孕教师终止妊娠的通知无效
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/
China Hasn’t “Eased” Its One-Child Policy
http://www.nationalreview.com/
Reggie Littlejohn, President
Women's Rights Without Frontiers
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Stop Forced Abortion – China’s War on Women! Video (4 mins)
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