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.

    • 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.