2008-11-13 Uyghur Woman Faces Forced Abortion

2008-11-13  Radio Free Asia \abortion\China\Uyghur http://www.rfa.org/english/news/forced%20abortion-11132008173803.html Uyghur Woman Faces Forced Abortion Uyghur Woman Faces Forced Abortion  Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children. As a member of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority, Tursun is legally permitted to more than the one child allowed most people in China. But when word of a third pregnancy reached local authorities, they coerced her into the hospital for an abortion, according to her husband. "Arzigul is being kept in bed number three," a nurse in the women's section at Gulja's Water Gate Hospital said in a telephone interview. "We will give an injection first. Then she will experience abdominal pain, and the baby will come out by itself. But we haven't given her any injection yetâ€”we are waiting for instructions from the doctors." China's one-child-per-family policy applies mainly to majority Han Chinese but allows ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, to have additional children, with peasants permitted to have three children and city-dwellers two. In the spirit of "why don't you criticize the terrorists as much as you criticize America?", why don't the anti-abortion people go over to China and do something about this?

&ldquo;Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children.&rdquo;   