{"id":155997,"date":"2016-11-03T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155997"},"modified":"2016-11-03T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T20:00:45","slug":"report-family-china-hides-escape-forced-abortion-third-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-family-china-hides-escape-forced-abortion-third-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Family in China hides to escape forced abortion of third child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an email this week, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers<\/a> president Reggie Littlejohn stated\u00a0that the BBC went undercover in China on the one year anniversary of the ‘relaxing’ of China’s One-Child Policy to find out if forced abortion is still a threat for families illegally pregnant with a\u00a0third child. The\u00a0BBC’s\u00a0report<\/a> details the fact that despite the Chinese government’s decision to\u00a0‘relax’ its One-Child Policy into a Two-Child Policy, forced abortion is still very much a part of the country’s ‘family planning’ efforts.<\/p>\n

Littlejohn reports that a Chinese father told BBC’s Beijing reporter John Sudworth that “[a]\u00a0third baby is not allowed, so we are renting a home away from our village.\u00a0 The local government carries out pregnancy examinations every three months.\u00a0If we weren\u2019t in hiding, they would have forced us to have an abortion.\u201d\u00a0<\/b>And yet, the father noted, “When I look at our new baby, I feel happy.” Littlejohn writes that this family is “caught between the joy of holding their new baby in their arms and the fear of what will happen to them when they come out of hiding.”<\/p>\n

If the family is discovered or comes out of hiding, they could face an exorbitant fine, says Littlejohn, “as large as ten times their annual salary” and could lose their jobs. Most families do not have the ability to pay such a fine.<\/p>\n

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