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.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    If that's all it takes for you to default to western chauvinism then it sounds like your mind is already made up

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yep, I am a "Western chauvinist," because I hold values like "restricting abortion is bad" or "banning femboys is bad" even when China does it. In order to not be a "Western chauvinist" I would have to hold no actual values or principles and just let my beliefs sway with the wind depending on whatever China does.

      Of course, the fact that I support China does not have any bearing on this.

        • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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          3 years ago

          The drift towards more limits on abortion has been under way for several years. Jiangxi province issued guidelines in 2018 stipulating that women more than 14 weeks pregnant must have signed approval from three medical professionals before having a termination.

            • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Jiangxi is one of the good provinces, though. Coastal, developed. The New York State of China. If it were one of the hick Alabama provinces that would be another thing, but it's not.

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        No like I said I get that your mind is already made up, i don't care enough to struggle session with you about this.

        Frankly you're right that your opinion of the internal affairs of a sovereign country is mostly irrelevant and definitely not germane to anything substantial, what really matters is whether or not you're contributing to the intentional campaign to demonize and isolate that country.

        I.e. what narratives you're helping to propagate, among the social context you're surrounded with.

        Anyway buddy, you do you :yea: