Women in rural areas had their babies at home and went to hospital for abortions or sterilisations after out-of-plan pregnancies.
The Chinese government recently relaxed its infamous one child policy, brutally imposed since 1979 through forced abortions and sterilisations, and said that all couples would be allowed to have two children.
If all else fails, talk about abortions and STD's.
They're dying in childbirth, having abortions, having their houses broken into, being attacked by vandals.
The regulationshave led to sometimes brutal crackdowns on families with more than one child,including forced abortions and sterilisation as well as the levying of heftyfines.
Does an increase in the number of abortions of female foetuses reflect an increase in son preference?
Some doctors even have expressed worries that there may be a corresponding jump in abortions later this year, as couples realize they missed the horse-year cutoff.
77 in the 1970s, but the policy has led to countless troublesome consequences over the years, including forced sterilizations and abortions and a shortage of women in a country that overwhelmingly prefers boys over girls.
