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.

  • 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.