By Jane Li & Tripti Lahiri
Published September 27, 2021
For decades, abortion was freely available to women in China. In fact, as a tool of the one-child policy, it was traumatically forced on women to make them conform to the state’s need to reduce the population.
But now that China is far more worried about its shrinking population, it seems to be reversing course and moving towards more carefully controlling how woman access abortion. In other words, abortion will continue to be a tool of state policy in China—it’s just that the policy has changed.
Continued: https://qz.com/2065112/china-will-make-abortions-harder-for-women-to-get/