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.

  • Mizokon [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Here is a Chinese article: https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1712041052753238902

    "State Council: Improve women's reproductive health and reduce non-medical abortions "

    according to the Chinese government website, the State Council issued the "Outline for the Development of Chinese Women and Outline for the Development of Children in China", which requires the improvement of laws, regulations and policies related to population fertility, and promotes the matching of fertility policies with economic and social policies. Research promotes the inclusion of care services for infants and children under the age of 3 into the special additional deductions for personal income tax, housing and other supporting policies to reduce the burden of family birth, parenting, and education; improve women’s reproductive health and reduce non-medical abortions; online games, Webcast and other functions should be set up for minors.

    The pursuit of equality between men and women is great. Women are the pioneers of human civilization, the promoters of social progress, and an important force in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. The equality of men and women and the overall development of women are important indicators for measuring the progress of social civilization. The party and the state attach great importance to the development of women's cause, and have successively formulated and implemented a three-cycle program for the development of women in China, which has provided important guarantees for optimizing the development environment for women and guaranteeing women's legal rights and interests.

    BUT ITS JUST LIKE TEXAS... :cope:

    Improve women's reproductive health. Popularize knowledge on the prevention and control of diseases such as reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases. Carry out scientific and practical health education in various forms at different stages of school education to promote students to master the knowledge of reproductive health and improve their self-protection ability. Enhance the awareness of sexual ethics, sexual health, and safety of both men and women, and advocate shared responsibility for contraception. Integrate reproductive health services into the whole process of women’s health management to ensure that women enjoy the informed and independent right to choose contraception and birth control. Implement basic contraceptive service projects, strengthen postpartum and post-abortion contraception and birth control services, improve service accessibility, and prevent unwanted pregnancy. The promotion of pre-marital medical examinations, pre-pregnancy health check-ups, and supplementation of folic acid, such as pre-marital pre-pregnancy health care services, will be more fair and accessible. Reduce non-medical abortion. Strengthen the quality assurance of women's health and safety products. Standardize infertility diagnosis and treatment services. Standardize the application of human assisted reproductive technology.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You can do all of that and, you know, NOT clamp down on abortions

      • Mizokon [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        i don't know if they are doing that, the text doesn't suggest they are "clamping" down on abortions, "Reduce non-medical abortion" doesn't mean "clamping" down, it likely means to promote contraceptives and birth control over abortions to prevent unwanted pregnancies. I don't think women are going to be denied abortions due to these guidelines.

        • mittens [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, of course, it depends on how reliable the grauniad even is. There might be zero clamp down as you said and is just a capricious translation.