{"id":177625,"date":"2018-01-14T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=177625"},"modified":"2018-01-11T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:22:30","slug":"chinese-reunite-daughter-forced-to-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chinese-reunite-daughter-forced-to-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese parents reunite with daughter they would have been forced to abort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1994, when China was still pushing its One-Child coercive population control policy<\/a>, a young couple faced an agonizing decision when they learned they were pregnant with their second child. They knew they would be forced to\u00a0abort<\/a> their baby.<\/a>\u00a0They also knew that if they tried to hide their child, she would be forced to live in the shadows, with no education and no healthcare<\/a>. So they secretly carried their baby girl to term and then gave her up, hanging onto the hope that they would one day see her again.<\/p>\n

“I would have felt so sorry if we had aborted her,” said Fenxiang, the father. “I thought that even if we couldn’t afford to raise her we could give her away. On the morning of the third day after she was born, I prepared her milk, I held her and hugged her for a while. Then I walked to the market. She didn’t cry. She was asleep. I kissed her gently. I knew it was the final farewell.”<\/p>\n

China’s long-standing One-Child policy led to over 300 million<\/a>\u00a0abortions. Under the original policy, if a woman became pregnant with her second child she would have to consider abortion or suffer the alternatives. Mothers tell stories of government officials chasing them down, arresting them, charging them fines sometimes as large as a year’s salary, and then forcibly aborting their children. If a woman tried to hide a second pregnancy there was often a neighbor or a co-worker eager to turn her in. And while China has said that it now will allow some families to have two children<\/a>, these horrific attacks on human rights still occur.<\/p>\n

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