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.

  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    totally headline baiting from a shitty lib outlet as usual. sex-selective abortions are an issue, and this is part of a broader way to address socially conservatist sexism within China