China 'forces seven month pregnant woman to have abortion for breaching one-child policy'

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Pictures purporting to show the woman and her blood-covered baby have shocked anti-abortion groups in China - and fury is spreading around the world.

The mother, Feng Jianmei, told local media that she was forceably injected with a chemical to induce an abortion and her child was stillborn 36 hours later.

Because she already had a child, said Feng, local birth-control authorities ordered her to pay a fine equivalent to £4,000.

She didn't have the money because her mother-in-law needed money for cancer treatment.

Subsequently a team of no less than 20 staff from the family planning department of the local family planning authority in Shannxi province came to collect her from her home and take her to hospital for the forced abortion.

As they drove her to the hospital for a forced abortion, she began to resist - resulting in her being beaten.

At the hospital, she was restrained and given an injection that would be lethal to the foetus. None of her family was allowed to be present during the traumatic time, she said.

Feng said that her father-in-law heard about her being taken away but when he rushed to the hospital he was prevented from entering the obstetrics ward.

As outrage spread of the incident, Chai Ling of the U.S.-based activist group All Girls Allowed said Feng's story demonstrated how the One-Child Policy continued to sanction violence against women every day.

The group said it had spoken to Feng and her husband Deng Jiyuan after the incident, when Mr Deng claimed his wife had been forcibly taken to hospital and restrained before she was given the injection.

As outrage spread around anti-abortion groups in China, the authorities strenuously denied Feng's version of the events.

Li Yuongjou, deputy chief of Ankang's family department, said the reality was that 'Feng was not forced to abort. She agreed to the abortion herself.'

Local media said it was most likely that Feng had been injected with a chemical commonly known as Lifannuo - a powerful bactericide used in the late 1980s and early 1990s when China's one-child policy was strongly pursued by authorities.

It is not known how Feng managed to obtain photos of herself beside the aborted child, but anti-abortion groups said they were convinced the pictures were genuine.