Chinese abortion death due to birth quota enforcement, family claims

[Swede]

When Ma Jihong became pregnant for a third time, she looked forward to expanding her family. So many neighbours had broken China's strict birth quotas she thought she could too.

But six months later she died in panic on an operating table after officials in Lijin, Shandong province, forced her into a late-term abortion, relatives have said.

Her eldest daughter, 14-year-old Yuyu, has not spoken since Ma's death more than a week ago. Yanyan, aged four, cries for her mother but does not even know she is dead – relatives unsure how to break the news have pretended that Ma has left in search of work.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/21/chinese-abortion-death-birth-quota-claims

[Ilsa]

1. If government has the right to say you must carry a pregnancy, then they

also have the right to say you can't.