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Summarry Box: Forced Abortion

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007 | 4:36 a.m.

POPULATION CONTROL: A widely criticized policy limits most Chinese families to one child, and to have even one baby, couples need government permission.

ENFORCEMENT: It has become less rigorous in recent years, but critics still cite many instances of forcible terminations ordered by bureaucrats, sometimes in the last weeks of pregnancy.

WHAT'S NEW: Some Chinese are doing what was once unthinkable: challenging the government in the courts.

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