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The abortion rate in China remained relatively low into the early 1960s, although it increased to 5.3% in 1958 and 8.4% in 1962. [9]: 98–99 Generally, research attributes those increases to the birth planning campaigns that occurred contemporaneously. [9]: 99 By 1975, the abortion rate in China was 22.3%, nearly double what it had been only ...
Abortion in China is generally legal and accessible. [1] [2] [3] Abortions are widely accepted socially and are available to all women through China's family planning programme, public hospitals, private hospitals, and clinics nationwide. [4]
Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [7] [8]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [9]: 15–49 Madagascar
The government sought to stamp out selective abortion of female children, but with abortions legal and readily available, those operating illicit sonogram machines enjoyed a thriving business. That has been the biggest factor in China’s lopsided sex ratio, with as many as millions more boys born, raising the possibility of social instability ...
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Additionally, some Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) requested an independent investigation into forced abortion and infanticide in China. [48] A few days later, MEP Lojze Peterle opined that Chinese family planning law violates provisions outlined by the United Nations in the International Conference on Population and Development.
Abortion has existed since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in most written sources. The earliest known records of abortion techniques and general reproductive regulation date as far back as 2700 BC in China, and 1550 BC in Egypt. [6]