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A June 22 editorial in The Australian argued against the one-child policy, stating that Feng's case "one small example of the terrible costs of China's longstanding population control regime". [55] A June 25 editorial in the Herald Sun , which examined family planning in general, said that Feng "personifies the end game of forced population ...
Douyin video screenshot, showing Feng County woman Yang was chained to the neck, locked in a broken house.. The Xuzhou chained woman incident (Chinese: 徐州铁链女事件), also known as the Xuzhou eight-child mother incident (Chinese: 徐州八孩母亲事件), is a case of human trafficking, false imprisonment, sexual assault, severe mistreatment, and subsequent events that came to light ...
However, the quality and quantity of prenatal care varies significantly across socioeconomic and geographical lines. A study in 2011 found that in rural areas, women who receive prenatal care have an average of 5 visits, and approximately 63% of pregnant women from rural areas have a prenatal examination within the first 12 weeks. [18]
More than a dozen Chinese companies face legal action for allegedly asking job applicants to take pregnancy tests, state media has reported.
A woman from Hunan, China, was pregnant for a record-breaking 17 months, according to People's Daily Online; she reportedly got pregnant in February 2015 and hadn't given birth by mid-August this ...
Couples whose first child is a girl are allowed to have a second child. [4] Even when exceptions were made to the One-Child Policy if a couple had a female child first, the baby girls were still discarded, because the parents didn't want the financial burden of having two children. They would continuously do this until they had a boy. [citation ...
China now has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. [4] In 2015, approximately 13 million abortions were performed annually. [27] [28] National Health Commission of China reported that more than 9 million abortions are performed annually in China as of 2018. [25] In 2020, the number of abortions in China was just under 9 million. [29]
In the mountains of central China, a “large” pregnant creature perched at the edge of a forest. Down the scaly predator’s back ran a line of “heart-shaped” spots.