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Abortion in China is legal and is a government service available on request for women〔http://www.actnow.com.au/Issues/Abortion_confusion.aspx〕 except in cases of sex-selective abortion. In addition to virtually universal access to contraception, abortion is a way for China to contain its population in accordance with its one-child policy.〔Hesketh, Therese . Lu, Li. Xing, Zhu Wei, Sept 2005, "(The Effect of China’s One-Child Family Policy After 25 Years )", The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 353, Iss. 11. Retrieved 5 Dec 2011.〕 ==History== In the early 1950s, the Chinese government made abortion illegal save when 1) the mother had a preexisting condition, such as tuberculosis or pernicious anemia, that would cause the pregnancy to be a threat to the mother's life; 2) when traditional Chinese medicine could not settle an overactive fetus and spontaneous abortion was expected; and 3) when the mother had already undergone two or more Caesarean sections.〔Jing-Bao, Nie. ''Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion'' Lanham, ML: Rowman & Litterfield Publishers, 2005.〕 Punishments were written into the law for those who received or performed illegal abortions.〔 In 1954 and 1956, the law was extended to include other pre-existing illnesses and disabilities, such as hypertension and epilepsy, as well as allowed women working in certain types of occupations to qualify.〔 Women who had already had four children and became pregnant four months after giving birth to their last child also qualified for an abortion.〔 These restrictions were seen as the government's way of emphasizing the importance of population growth.〔 The scholar Nie Jing-Bao explains that these laws were relaxed in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the intent of reducing the number of deaths and lifelong injuries women sustained due to illegal abortions as well as serving as a form of population control when used in conjunction with birth control.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abortion in China」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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