Government says clampdown is aimed at improving women’s reproductive health, but it comes amid anxiety about the nation’s falling birth rate

China has already enacted strict measures aimed at preventing sex-selective abortions, and health authorities also warned in 2018 that the use of abortion to end unwanted pregnancies was harmful to women’s bodies and risked causing infertility.

The state council said the new guidelines, issued on Monday, would aim to improve women’s overall access to pre-pregnancy healthcare services.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Clickbate headline, seems like it's overall a positive thing if by "non-medical" purposes they mean addressing the issue with "sex-selective abortions".

    Obviously there are other material conditions regarding gender equality that motivated that trend in the first place that also should be addressed but I don't see this as being problematic in any way.