Woman Forced to Abort Fetus at Seven Months

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Woman Forced to Abort Fetus at Seven Months

Local family planning office carries out compulsory abortion on woman who lacked government permit to have a child

By Feng Changle
Epoch Times China Staff

A 25-year-old unmarried woman was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a clinic to give her an abortion.

Wang Liping lives in a suburb of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. She became pregnant in November 2004. Because her boyfriend could not afford a wedding, they did not get married right away. She is the oldest sibling in her family, and her parents were excited about having grandchildren. Without a marriage certificate, however, she could not receive a government permit to give birth.

At about 6 p.m. on May 31, 2005, Wang was stopped on the street by a group of people who identified themselves as staff members from the township family planning office. They forced her into their car and took her in turn to the town clinic, an air force hospital, and Tangli Clinic. All three institutions refused to abort her fetus. At about 11 p.m., they took her to Laoyachen Clinic.

Without her consent or any pre-operation tests, the staff from the family planning office and several doctors and nurses held her arms and pushed her to the ground. She screamed for help. They also beat her, stripped off her pants, and injected a syringe of drugs into her abdominal area. She was then taken to a patient room and tied to the bed.

Wang Liping said, "I was both shocked and scared, and lost all strength to fight back. My calls for help were unanswered. I could not believe such a brutal, horrid thing was happening to me."

She said that at about 3 a.m. on June 2, after violent pains, the infant was born. The infant cried for a few minutes and then became silent and motionless. At that time, no hospital staff was around to help her. Deeply fearful, she shouted for a while before a yawning nurse appeared.

The nurse asked, "What are you shouting about?"

Wang said, "Could you check on my baby?" The nurse walked over to the bed, looked at the baby, and said, "The baby is already dead." She then tossed the body aside.

Wang was so shocked by the news that she fainted. When she woke up in the morning, a doctor was standing by her bed and asked her to pay a fee to handle the baby's remains.

When Wang said that she had no money, the doctor put the body in a plastic bag, put it on her bed and said, "If you have no money, it's easy, just take the body and handle it yourself."

Wang was allowed to contact her family only after the baby had died. When her boyfriend and relatives went to the family planning office requesting to see the regulations that authorized such a late-term abortion, the staff ousted them out of the government offices. Meanwhile, Laoyachen Clinic sent them a bill again, asking them to pay a fee for "family planning."

Wang said, "The doctors and nurses have no sense of humanity or medical ethics. The staff at the family planning office has no conscience or understanding of basic legal concepts. I am almost at the point of a nervous breakdown. Where are our most fundamental human rights? Modern China is the only country in history that requires a government permit to have a child. How many families have suffered because of the family planning policy?"

Anguished, she said, "Since people are eating people now [see note below], I really want to kill these men-eating beasts with my own teeth!"

Note: According to articles circulating on some Chinese web sites, some restaurants cook aborted fetuses and sell them as a tonic.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-6-22/43051.html
 
Another one

Woman, Pregnant with Twins, Dies in Suspicious Hospital Fall
Seven-month-pregnant woman appeared to have been beaten before falling
By Chen Xingman
Central News Agency
Jul 04, 2006

HONG KONG ― The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong reported on July 1 that Ms. Li Shimei of Hefei City in Anhui Province, who already had a child but was seven months pregnant with twins, was sent to the hospital for an induced labor under China's One-Child Family Policy. { Editors' Note: Under China's One-Child policy, families are prohibited from having more than one child. Generally women pregnant with a second child are forced to have abortions. ]

Fearing for her safety and the lives of her unborn children, she refused the forced induction. She argued with the staff and subsequently died after falling from the second story of a hospital building.

The Information Center said that on the afternoon of June 21 in Yaohai district, Hefei City, Anhui Province, 18 people from the Tongling Road Family Planning Office suddenly entered Ms. Li Shimei's home and forceably took her away to the Hefei Shuguang Hospital for induction of labor. Because Ms. Li Shimei was already seven months pregnant with twins, and because family members were barred from visiting her, she was suspicious that the proposed induced labor was a ploy to eliminate her unborn twins. She therefore refused to comply.

However, the doctors and the family planning office staff still demanded that she undergo the operation. When the staff attempted to force her, Ms. Li Shimei struggled and somehow fell from the hospital's second floor. She died of injuries from the fall in early morning hours of June 22.

The Information Center learned that there were many large bruises on Li's body; it appeared that she was severely beaten by the family planning office staff while in detention.

The Information Center believes that Li Shimei's case reflects the gross violations of human rights inherent in the enforcement of China's family planning policy. Detaining Li Shimei in that fashion violates the Chinese Constitution, while forcing her to accept an abortion while seven months pregnant with twins violates human decency.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-7-4/43529.html
 
What's more, both are from China. China has had birth restrictions as law for quite some time to prevent rampant overpopulation (as I understood it) and the sad fact is that the Chinese government pretty much stomps all over everybody's rights to everything.

Other than invading and overthrowing the government (and remember: never get involved in a land war in Asia) what do you plan to do about it? Posting stories next to angry emoticons on the internet accomplishes nothing, if you ask me. Why not get involved in the humanitarian effort if it bothers you so much?
 
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