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Tuesday July 4, 2006
Chinese Woman Falls to Her Death Fleeing Forced Abortion of Twins
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By Hilary White
HONG KONG, July 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Hong Kong-based
Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reported this weekend
that a woman pregnant with twins has fallen to her death while fleeing
a forced abortion in a hospital in Himei.
Li Shimei, who was seven months pregnant, was seized at her home and
taken to the hospital in the eastern city of Hefei because she already
had one child when she became pregnant.
Shimei fell from the Shuguang Hospital’s second floor while trying to
leave because she thought the procedure was too dangerous, the
Information Centre said.
The Information Centre provides information about human rights abuses in mainland China for news outlets around the world.
While forced or coerced abortion is officially outlawed, human rights
groups outside China and some human rights activists within the
communist country have said that with quotas laid on local officials, women
and families are commonly intimidated or outright forced to abort.
China’s One Child policy has come under fire even from the
abortion-friendly United Nations human rights inspectors. Demographers
believe that China has one of the highest rates of abortion in the
world. In 2001, a single region, Guangdong (formerly known as Canton)
was ordered by ‘family planning’ officials to carry out a quota of at
least 20,000 abortions and sterilizations.
In 2005, despite “reforms” claimed by the Chinese government, Amnesty
International reported that forced abortion continued to be common.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Forced Abortion Continues in China at Alarming Rate says Latest Report
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/oct/05102602.html
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