ENG 1430 W5
Xi Liuwen /Vivian
Professor: Ms. F
May 5th, 2014 Abortion Should Be Limited By Law
The term “induced abortion” is likely very familiar to most people nowadays, according to a Chinese National Population and Family Planning Commission research study, China has more than 13 million cases of induced abortion every year, which is, undoubtedly, an incredibly high number, even for China.
In the abortion controversy, the most appropriate approach is to limit abortions by law, which means to identify when and which abortions should be legalized because limit abortion can promote women’s health both mentally and physically, solve a series of social problems such as reduce the possibility of premarital pregnancy, mitigate the gender discrimination problem and promote the condom use.
Essentially to adopt part of Hong Kong’s restriction of abortion. In Hong Kong, abortion is not allowed except for some special cases as follows: 1. two doctors find out that the pregnant woman may suffer from physical or mental harm, they agree and sign an informed consent form for the pregnant woman. 2. The unborn baby has been confirmed that is likely to be a severe deformed fetus. 3. The age of the pregnant woman is under 16 years old. 4. The woman becomes pregnant by rape or incest. This law is a proper law to limit abortions but it is not so available in Chinese mainland because one-child policy was launched here. So for Chinese government, a further consideration of the relationship between one-child policy and abortion should be taken to restrict abortion more properly.
Since China’s one-child policy was approved, couple with one child cannot bear another child except some special conditions set by law. So in this case, they must choose to abort if the wife is pregnant because the policy does not allow it.
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