China Family Planning Office Car

Zhengzhou, China June 24, 2006 (LifeNews.com) -- Forced abortions in China have become routine there thanks to a family planning policy that prevents couples from having more than one child. A story has emerged in one of the more recent cases where family planning officials carried out a forced abortion on Wang Liping, who did not have the necessary permit to have a child. A 25 year-old unmarried woman, Wang was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a family planning clinic to do the abortion. First, the officials took Wang to a town clinic, then an air force clinic and then a third facility. All three refused to do the abortion but a fourth clinic eventually agreed to abort Wang's pregnancy and kill her seven-month old unborn baby. Doctors and nurses at the Laoyachen Clinic pushed her to the ground and held her arms. As she screamed for help, they beat her and removed her pants and injected a drug into her abdomen. They took Wang to another room and tied her to a bed. Wang 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." Four hours later, Wang gave birth to the baby with no staff around to help her. After the birth, she screamed for help and a nurse came into her room and told her to stop yelling. Asked about the baby, the nurse said the baby was dead and later a doctor came into Wang's room to ask her to pay a fee to dispose of the baby's body. She told he doctor she had no money to pay the fee and he told her to dispose of the baby's body herself. Wang's family, after hearing about the forced abortion, went to the clinic to ask staff there for paperwork authorizing the abortion. They were thrown out of the facility and staff threatened to contact local officials. "The doctors and nurses have no sense of humanity or medical ethics," Wang said. "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?"