I read an article in Glamour magazine today that shocked me, it was about women being forced to have abortions in China. I have heard of the "one child policy" in China, but I thought that I had heard that they had changed that law, I was wrong. The article talked about how they still can only have one child, and that if they want more than one child they have to pay for the right to have a second child, and even if they do pay for the second child, its not a guarentee that they can have that second child.
The article included a story about a women whose husband and her scraped together enough money to have the right to have a second child. Then her world came crashing down when eight months into the pregnancy she had to get an abortion because of a big crackdown on the "one child policy". She also said that after she was injected, she could feel her child struggle to stay alive, and she felt it die. She's not alone, it was said that there are thirteen million abortions in China yearly, that is up 44% since 2003.
It is unlike the U.S. abortions, because abortions taking place in China can take place at any time in the prengancy, even at nine months, where as in the U.S. you can't be more than fourteen weeks in some states and twenty-four weeks in others, according to wiki.answers.com.
There is something we can do to help the women in China, if you go to allgirlsallowed.com ad sign a petition to President Obama and Congress. I feel really bad for the women in China, but I feel even worse for the babies, because they don't have a voice in the situation, so let's help give them a voice.
