Have you ever heard someone say that people should have to have a license to become parents? Here’s what that looks like in reality.
Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren’t enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth, Yang’s wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby was killed by injection while still inside her.
“Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach,” says Jin Yani, a shy, petite woman with a long ponytail. “It was very painful. … It was all very rough.”
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NPR: Cases of Forced Abortions Surface in China
Fox News: Why Does NOW Support China’s Forced Abortion Policy?
U.S House of Representatives: FORCED ABORTION AND STERILIZATION IN CHINA: THE VIEW FROM THE INSIDE
BBC: Taiwan and China in abortion row
Amnesty International: China Report 2005
National Review: The Forgotten Women
Capitalism Magazine: Pat Robertson Supports Forced Abortions in China, But Opposes Voluntary Abortions in America
MSNBC: China victims decry forced late-term abortions
Time: Why Forced Abortions Persist in China
UK Independent: China admits women were forced to have abortions
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