Under the One-Child Policy, a Chinese schoolteacher, five months pregnant, was ordered to abort by the end of May or lose her job.\u00a0 This order has just been reversed, following domestic and international media attention.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Qin Yi (sometimes translated Tan Yi) and Meng Shaoping were both divorced and both have daughters from their first marriages.\u00a0 Qin Yi\u2019s residency is in Huangshan City in Anhui Province, where officials told her that she could have a second child because she divorced the father of her first child.<\/p>\n
She later moved to Libo County, Guizhou Province, because of her job as a teacher.\u00a0 There, she was told she must terminate her pregnancy by the end of May or lose her job.<\/p>\n
In Anhui, remarried couples can have a child if there are no more than two children from previous marriages.\u00a0 In Guizhou, however, remarried couples can have a child only if there is one child from previous marriages.<\/p>\n
News of this situation was reported widely in China and spread internationally, causing outrage.\u00a0 The Family Planning Commission on the Guizhou provincial level overturned the local authorities and will allow Qin Yi to have her baby.\u00a0 According to the South China Morning Post, this case demonstrates \u201chow unyielding the mainland\u2019s birth limits continue to be despite a loosening in the 35-year-old policy to let more couples to have two children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, stated, \u201cWe are delighted that Qin Yi and her husband will be allowed to have their baby.\u00a0 Our hearts nevertheless go out to this couple because of the harrowing experience of coming so close to suffering the excruciating pain of a late-term forced abortion.\u00a0 Their experience dramatically demonstrates what I\u2019ve been saying all along:\u00a0 China is continuing its horrific practice of late term forced abortions.\u00a0 This is savagery and it must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littlejohn continued, \u201cChina has not \u2018eased\u2019 its One-Child Policy.\u00a0 It has merely tweaked it.\u00a0 The fact that the Chinese Communist Party is allowing some couples to have a second child does not mean that they have ceased their appalling methods of enforcement.\u00a0 Couples still need to have a birth permit for the first and for the second child, or face forced abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case also demonstrates that the One-Child Policy is not enforced uniformly throughout China.\u00a0 A pregnancy may be allowed in one province and not allowed in another.\u00a0 There\u2019s no uniformity.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the Wild West when it comes to the coercive enforcement of birth limits,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, the fact that the CCP reversed its decision and allowed this couple to have their baby demonstrates that it does in fact respond to pressure, both domestic and international \u2013 despite its protestations to the contrary \u2013 so we need to keep up the pressure,\u201d Littlejohn concluded.<\/p>\n
To sign a petition against forced abortion, click here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition<\/a><\/p>\n View S<\/span>top Forced Abortion \u2013 China\u2019s War on Women! Video (4 mins)\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/?nav=stop-forced-abortion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Related links:<\/p>\n Chinese woman ordered to have abortion after moving provinces is allowed to keep child\u00a0http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/1804552\/chinese-woman-ordered-have-abortion-after-moving-province-allowed<\/a><\/p>\n \u8d35\u5dde\u7701\u536b\u8ba1\u59d4:\u8d23\u4ee4\u6000\u5b55\u6559\u5e08\u7ec8\u6b62\u598a\u5a20\u7684\u901a\u77e5\u65e0\u6548\u00a0http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/mandarin\/yataibaodao\/renquanfazhi\/nu-05192015113624.html<\/a><\/p>\n China Hasn\u2019t \u201cEased\u201d Its One-Child Policy\u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/364200\/china-hasnt-eased-its-one-child-policy-reggie-littlejohn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under the One-Child Policy, a Chinese schoolteacher, five months pregnant, was ordered to abort by the end of May or lose her job.\u00a0 This order has just been reversed, following domestic and international media attention. \u00a0Qin Yi (sometimes translated Tan … Continue reading