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.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah, there's another stormfront thread on worldnews with a Reuters article about this that is instead titled

    China says will reduce the number of abortions for "non-medical purposes"

    And someone in the comments stated that if you look at the actual document, the context of reducing non-medical abortions is that they're going to be improving sex education and access to medical care and contraceptives to reduce the number of people who need these abortions in the first place.

    That's objectively and wholely good, but I'm sure we'll see a tidal wave of propaganda along the lines of this Guardian article.

    EDIT: oughta just include the comment's text actually:

    China isn't limiting abortion as a choice. China is promoting sex education to prevent unwanted pregnancy. It's literally the sentence right before the one quoted in the title, which is relevant to the topic but for some reason wasn't referenced in the article.

    增强男女两性性道德、性健康、性安全意识,倡导共担避孕责任。将生殖健康服务融入妇女健康管理全过程,保障妇女享有避孕节育知情自主选择权。落实基本避孕服务项目,加强产后和流产后避孕节育服务,提高服务可及性,预防非意愿妊娠。

    Google translate: Enhance the awareness of sexual ethics, sexual health, and safe sex in both men and women, and advocate shared responsibility for contraception. Integrate reproductive health services into the process of women’s health management to ensure women's right to be informed and independently choose contraception. Implement basic contraceptive service projects, improve postpartum and post-abortion contraception and birth control services, improve service accessibility, and prevent unwanted pregnancy.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        What's fucked up is that the Reuters headline is already misleading propaganda.

        If Oregon expanded sex ed for men and women, pre and post natal care, pre and post abortion care and contraceptive access for men and women, and stated that they expected it to reduce the number of abortions due to unwanted pregnancies, Reuters would never describe it as a "Oregon states it will reduce the number non-medical abortions."

        The Guardian took a propagandized headline and further propagandized it.

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Pretty wild how they can twist something that is pretty unambiguously good into something bad

      Mainstream/establishment-linked western source on China = poopoo