{"id":45687,"date":"2014-02-01T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=45687"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:15:36","slug":"chinese-government-breaks-up-gang-offering-sex-selective-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/chinese-government-breaks-up-gang-offering-sex-selective-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese government breaks up gang offering sex-selective abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clnqbXp-tCc\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chinese Ministry of Health recently reported the arrest of a gang running an illegal service enabling women to receive sex-selective abortions, according to <a title=\" China breaks up gang offering sex-selective abortions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/19\/us-china-abortion-idUSBREA0I01M20140119\" target=\"_blank\">a Reuters article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group operated by sending women from throughout the country to the central city of Zhengzou to have their unborn children&#8217;s sex determined so that those of an undesired gender (usually female) could be aborted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry stated, <span id=\"articleText\">&#8220;This went on for a long time, covering a wide area and involved many people. It was malicious, had serious results and was a great threat to society.&#8221; They went on to say that this is a widespread problem in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"articleText\"><a title=\"Chinese police bust gender determination group, five sentenced \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?list=UUgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg&amp;v=clnqbXp-tCc\" target=\"_blank\">CCTV<\/a> reported that 1,000 women used the service since it was first offered in 2010, adding that at least one had died from the procedure, which was carried out using a very primitive tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China, like many Asian countries, has a notable bias towards male children. This has resulted in a severe population imbalance within the country, with one <a title=\"China\u2019s excess males, sex selective abortion, and one child policy: analysis of data from 2005 national intercensus survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/338\/bmj.b1211\" target=\"_blank\">2009 study<\/a> warning of &#8220;an imminent generation of excess men.&#8221; According to the study, &#8220;[s]ex-selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing trends of population imbalance and sex-selective abortions within the country will likely continue for as long as Chinese culture values male children more highly than female children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Ministry of Health recently reported the arrest of a gang running an illegal service enabling women to receive sex-selective abortions, according to a Reuters article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":45853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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