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.

  • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It's to increase the number of babies born. China's one child policy worked exactly as it was supposed to and now there's not enough young people to pay for all the old people's pensions. In a few decades something like 1/3 of China will be elderly. This is a disaster for an economy. You need lots of young people who spend, spend, spend. Old people collect retirement pay and do nothing for the economy.