China to Limit Abortions
December 19, 2004
Next month Guiyang will test a pilot program in the hopes of stopping China’s widespread problem of abortion female fetuses. This new policy will ban doctors from performing abortions on women who are more than 14 weeks along in their pregnancy. Currently in China couples many only have one child. Since girls are deemed inferior, many women wait until after they learn the sex of their baby to determine if they want an abortion.
The ban was created after the discovery of an alarming trend showing that the number of boys being born is increasing over the number of girls. The ban can be lifted in cases of genetic disfigurement or disease, if the woman’s spouse dies, or if the couple divorces.
As horrible as it is for women to have an abortion just because you want a boy, it might be a better alternative than women abandoning their daughters after birth – leaving them to a life in orphanages or even worse, a dying room
