Beijing called for a reduction in abortions that are not “medically necessary” on Monday, as China tries to reverse its falling birth rate and encourage couples to have more children.After decades of a strict and often brutal one-child policy — one of the world’s strictest family planning regulations — China has been gradually easing restrictions to encourage couples to have more children after a record-low number of babies were born last year.
Healthcare professionals should “promote pre-marital medical examinations, pre-pregnancy health check-ups” and “reduce abortions that are not medically necessary”, it said.Unlike in much of Asia, abortion is legal and easily accessible in China. But there are strict controls preventing sex-selective abortions, after decades of the one-child policy — and a traditional social preference for boys — led to a skewed gender balance and abandoned baby girls.
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