Illegal births and legal abortions

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Illegal births and legal abortions – the case of China.pdf

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/68228 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/68228 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/68228 archive 351 disk0/00/00/74/69 2016-01-15 02:17:31 2021-08-27 17:37:52 2016-01-15 02:17:31 article show Hemminki E. Wu Z. Cao G.-Y. 1708 Viisainen K. Illegal births and legal abortions - The case of China pub iis_pop prog_for Asia; China; Population policy; Illegal pregnancy; Abortion; Sex ratio BACKGROUND: China has a national policy regulating the number of children that a woman is allowed to have. The central concept at the individual level application is "illegal pregnancy". The purpose of this article is to describe and problematicize the concept of illegal pregnancy and its use in practice. METHODS: Original texts and previous published and unpublished reports and statistics were used. RESULTS: By 1979 the Chinese population policy was clearly a policy of controlling population growth. For a pregnancy to be legal, it has to be defined as such according to the family-level eligibility rules, and in some places it has to be within the local quota. Enforcement of the policy has been pursued via the State Family Planning (FP) Commission and the Communist Party (CP), both of which have a functioning vertical structure down to the lowest administrative units. There are various incentives and disincentives for families to follow the policy. An extensive system has been created to keep the contraceptive use and pregnancy status of all married women at reproductive age under constant surveillance. In the early 1990s FP and CP officials were made personally responsible for meeting population targets. Since 1979, abortion has been available on request, and the ratio of legal abortions to birth increased in the 1980s and declined in the 1990s. Similar to what happens in other Asian countries with low fertility rates and higher esteem for boys, both national- and local-level data show that an unnaturally greater number of boys than girls are registered as having been born. CONCLUSION: Defining a pregnancy as "illegal" and carrying out the surveillance of individual women are phenomena unique in China, but this does not apply to other features of the policy. The moral judgment concerning the policy depends on the basic question of whether reproduction should be considered as an individual or social decision. 2005-08-11 published BioMed Central 10.1186/1742-4755-2-5 XJ-05-091 Reproductive Health; 2:5 (11 August 2005) [doi:10.1186/1742-4755-2-5] 51 public Reproductive Health 2 5 5 TRUE 1742-4755 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/article