{"id":37378,"date":"2021-09-27T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/china-to-limit-abortions-for-non-medical-purposes"},"modified":"2021-09-28T01:40:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T16:40:06","slug":"china-to-limit-abortions-for-non-medical-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37378","title":{"rendered":"China to clamp down on abortions for \u2018non-medical purposes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Policy uses women as tool for economic goals and could endanger their lives, says rights group<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s pledge to limit abortions puts women\u2019s bodies under the state\u2019s control just as the one-child policy did and could endanger the lives of women seeking abortions, rights groups have said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government announced on Monday that it would seek to reduce abortions for \u201cnon-medical reasons\u201d \u2013 a move seen as being in line with its attempts to accelerate birthrates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/china-to-limit-abortions-for-non-medical-purposes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy uses women as tool for economic goals and could endanger their lives, says rights groupChina\u2019s pledge to limit abortions puts women\u2019s bodies under the state\u2019s control just as the one-child policy did and could endanger the lives of women seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,41,50,346,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-health","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37401,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378\/revisions\/37401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}