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In China's Republican era, the state emulated the late Qing dynasty reformers and Western governments in imposing a blanket ban on abortion. [9]: 5 Performing an abortion was illegal under all versions of the criminal code until 1935, when the Nationalist government allowed abortion for women with life-threatening pregnancies.
After Mao died in 1976, the policy evolved into the one-child policy in 1979, when a group of senior leaders decided that existing birth restrictions were insufficient to cope with what they saw to be an overpopulation crisis. [4] [7] But the one-child policy allowed many exceptions and ethnic minorities below 10 million people were exempt. [2]
[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] During China's one-child policy, women were subjected to forced abortions and many were subjected to forced sterilization on the orders of officials in some ...
Over 30 years of China’s one-child policy, an estimated 20 million baby girls “disappeared” due to sex-selective abortions or infanticide, according to Li Shuzhuo, director of the Center for ...
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some ...
The Chinese government's birth control policy, known widely as the one-child policy, was implemented in 1979 by chairman Deng Xiaoping's government to alleviate the overpopulation problem. Having more than one child was illegal and punishable by fines. This policy was replaced with a two-child policy in 2015. [235]
The preference for sons coupled with the one-child-policy have led to a high rate of sex-selective abortion in China. Therefore, mainland China has a highly masculine sex ratio. Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, asserted in 1990 that over 100 million women were missing globally, with 50 million women missing from China alone.
China's more than thirty-year-old one-child policy is drawing to a close. On January 1, 2016, China's one couple, two-child policy will go into effect. The country's lawmakers passed an amendment ...