Chinese Government Reports Abortion Statistics

[The Pope]

Chinese state media on Thursday reported that women in the country have about 13 million abortions annually, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. According to the China Daily newspaper, the actual number likely is much higher because the 13 million includes abortions performed in hospitals but not unreported procedures performed in rural clinics.

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[joazinha]

In the March 1987 Reader's Digest Magazine article, "A Mother's Ordeal," by American Sinologist (expert in Chinese affairs) Steve Mosher, there is a statistic that says about 53 MILLION abortions--which was then about the population of FRANCE--were performed between 1979 and 1983 in Red China.