China has already enacted strict measures aimed at preventing sex-selective abortions, and health authorities also warned in 2018 that the use of abortion to end unwanted pregnancies was harmful to women’s bodies and risked causing infertility.
The state council said the new guidelines, issued on Monday, would aim to improve women’s overall access to pre-pregnancy healthcare services.
This isn’t official policy but rather a statement of goals. It’s perfectly reasonable to have concerns that further legal restrictions on abortion may be coming, and the recent implementation of restrictions in a province seems pretty fucking relevant in that context of understanding how the government will approach the issue.
happens previously
“Why are you bringing up something from three years ago?”
signs that it may be happening again
“I’m gonna wait until it actually happens before I criticize anything”
There is a five minute window immediately after China does something bad in which you are allowed to be critical of them.
