
Philippines President Benigno Aquino has signed into law a bill providing for free access to contraception and family planning. Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region. The Roman Catholic Church repeatedly tried to block the [...]

City officials in Ankang, China, have apologized to Feng Jianmei, the woman who was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of pregnancy and suspended three people responsible, state media reports. This came after photos showing a foetus and the mother, Feng Jianmei, shocked web users. Feng Jianmei was made to undergo the [...]

Grisly photos of Chinese young woman Feng Jianmei as she was lying beside her baby which had been aborted by force in her seventh month of pregnancy have caused outrage in China. Pictures purporting to show Feng Jianmei and her blood-covered baby have shocked anti-abortion groups in China – and fury is spreading around the [...]
Jun 14 2012 | Posted in
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A picture of a foetus whose mother Feng Jiamei was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users. Feng Jiamei, from Shaanxi province, was made to undergo the procedure in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating. Feng Jiamei was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the [...]
Jun 14 2012 | Posted in
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