Chinese Surrogate Mothers Forced to Abort

(Guangzhou, China) Reports indicate that Chinese family planning officials are pursuing "illegal" surrogate mothers and forcing them to abort their children.

In the latest incident, Reuters reports that three young surrogate first-time mothers were discovered by authorities hiding in a communal flat in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. District family planning and security officers broke into the apartment, corralled them into a van and drove them to a district hospital where they were compelled into a maternity ward.

"I was crying 'I don't want to do this'," a 20-year-old woman called Xiao Hong told Reuters. She was pregnant with four-month-old twins.

“But they still dragged me in and injected my belly with a needle,” she said, reporting that the incident took place in late February.

She said the government officers had forced her thumbprint onto a consent form before carrying out the abortion.

Another surrogate mother, a 23-year-old from a village in Sichuan province, said officers made her take pills and then surgically removed her three-month-old unborn child while she was unconscious.

The underground surrogate pregnancy network has produced an estimated 25,000 children in China, primarily for wealthy infertile couples.

It appears that reports of China taking a less strident stance on population control may be inaccurate.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.