{"id":37463,"date":"2021-09-29T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/abortion-pledge-adds-to-scepticism-over-womens-rights-in-china"},"modified":"2021-09-29T19:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T10:52:19","slug":"abortion-pledge-adds-to-scepticism-over-womens-rights-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37463","title":{"rendered":"Abortion pledge adds to scepticism over women\u2019s rights in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: plan to reduce abortions as birthrates plunge draws comparisons to The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/p>\n<p>Far-reaching proposals from Beijing on \u201cwomen\u2019s development\u201d have sparked concern over a pledge to reduce abortions, with feminists and academics pointing to the government\u2019s history of control over women\u2019s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday China\u2019s state council published its latest 10-year outline for women\u2019s development. The lengthy document contained guidelines for China\u2019s gender-based policy, but it was a short phrase that caught particular attention: a pledge to \u201creduce abortions conducted for non-medical reasons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/abortion-pledge-adds-to-scepticism-over-womens-rights-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: plan to reduce abortions as birthrates plunge draws comparisons to The Handmaid\u2019s TaleFar-reaching proposals from Beijing on \u201cwomen\u2019s development\u201d have sparked concern over a pledge to reduce abortions, with feminists and academics pointing t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[542,41,50,346,78,1539,79,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-health","category-life-and-style","category-reproductive-rights","category-society","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\/37463","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37463\/revisions\/37464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}