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Abortion


            Abortions are very common in China; a women having her second or even third child is strongly encouraged to receive an abortion, and it is readily available to her. Abortions in China, however, are often shocking and disturbing. Unauthorized pregnancies are aborted during any stage of the pregnancy. The fetus may be viable(able to survive outside of the mother) to perform an abortion. There are an estimated half a million abortions within the third trimester per year in China. Most of these children were viable when the abortion occurred, and most often the abortion was performed without the consent of the mother. Reports have shown that women are often brainwashed, imprisoned, and deprived of food until they agree to have an abortion. The Chinese government had tried to insert some control over the abortions, making them instituted only if there was some medical reason why the parents did not want the child, or if the mother was experiencing difficulties from a previous child. .
             The abortion procedures in China are unnerving to most people. Doctors commonly inject women with a substance called Rivalor, which causes direct congenative heart failure to the baby. The baby will die within the next few days, and then it is delivered dead. Another way of performing the abortion is injecting pure formaldehyde into the soft spot on the babys head so that as he or she is being delivered, the doctor can crush the babys skull with his foreceps. Other doctors use chokers which are similar to twisty garbage ties. They are placed around the baby's neck as he or she is being delivered; after about five minutes he or she has strangled to death. .
             Culture and tradition in China shows a preference for males in matters of importance. Thus, since the one-child policy was instituted in China, there has been a growing imbalance of the ratio of men to women. According to a 1992 survey, the sex ratio of newborns was 118 males for every 100 females.


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