China Enforces One Child Policy, Birth Permits with Forced Abortions, Forced Sterilization

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China Enforces One Child Policy, Birth Permits with Forced Abortions, Forced Sterilization

Thursday, September 6th, 2007 | Population |

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.”