The Chinese regime pledged to reduce abortions in 2022 after about 9.5 million abortions were performed annually in the country, almost as many as the 10.6 million births that were recorded in 2021. The Chinese National Health Commission will intervene in abortions performed by unmarried people in 2022 because “more than 40 percent of abortions were obtained by unmarried young people whose age is under 24,” the commission-run Health News reported on Feb. 16. Young people were targeted for another reason, according to Shanghai-based media HealthInsight on Feb. 15. The report quoted Chen Suwen, obstetrician director at the Family Planning Department at Beijing Maternity Hospital, saying that 25 percent of abortions were done by married women because their fetuses stopped growing. The majority of these women had abortions before, which damaged their bodies and caused their fetuses to stop growing when they became pregnant later. “We did statistics, which show …
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