Abortion in China is legal and is a government service available on request for women. In theory this does not apply to sex-selective abortion, although this remains the basis for some women's requests. read more
Abortions are clearly in the political arena, and individual women's choices are often regulated. A common legal arrangement is that abortions are allowed if performed in early pregnancy by licensed health professionals . China has a national policy regulating the number of children that a woman may have. read more
Document 7 gave each province more power to adapt the one-child policy to local circumstances. This was the beginning of a raft of exclusions that made it hard for people within China — never mind outside China — to understand the policy in anything but the broadest strokes, because conditions really were different from place to place. read more