China’s one child policy leads to many coerced abortions. From pro-choice author Janet Hadley:
“In 1991, for example, in Southern China’s Guandong Province, officials surrounded a village one September night and searched all the houses and forced pregnant women into trucks. They were driven to the hospital for forced abortions; one woman gave birth on a journey, but a doctor killed her baby with an injection.”
“…Across the country, implementation of the one child campaign has been left to local officials. Killing excess babies, often crushing their skulls at the moment of birth, was described as a “remedial measure” — the euphemism for abortions inspired by this policy. Pregnant women hid in caves and woods to give birth, rather than face abortions at seven, eight, and nine months of pregnancy. Despite vigorous attempts to deny such stories and discredit their sources, reports of late-term abortions, lethal injections at birth, infanticide and secret births seep steadily out of China year by year.”
Janet Hadley “Abortion: between Freedom and Necessity” (Great Britain: Virago Press, 1996) 92-93
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