{"id":47573,"date":"2022-08-18T00:53:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/chinese-government-birth-rate-policies-abortions-population"},"modified":"2022-08-18T00:53:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:53:28","slug":"chinese-government-attempts-to-boost-birth-rate-with-new-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47573","title":{"rendered":"Chinese government attempts to boost birth rate with new policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures include improved maternal healthcare and efforts to reduce abortions as China seeks to reverse declining population growth<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has pledged to improve pre- and post-natal services to encourage more people to have children and reiterated its intent to \u201cdiscourage\u201d abortions as it seeks to turn around a declining birth rate.<\/p>\n<p>The measures announced by the country\u2019s national health commission include a pledge to make fertility treatments more accessible. For several years authorities have flagged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/gender-diversity\/article\/3123213\/china-reinforces-ban-single-women-freezing\">expanding IVF access to single women<\/a> but it remains available only to married couples. A court challenge by a woman was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shine.cn\/news\/in-focus\/2208119059\/\">recently struck down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/chinese-government-birth-rate-policies-abortions-population\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures include improved maternal healthcare and efforts to reduce abortions as China seeks to reverse declining population growthThe Chinese government has pledged to improve pre- and post-natal services to encourage more people to have children and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"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":[542,41,50,721,346,706,79,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fertility-problems","category-health","category-population","category-society","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573","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\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47573\/revisions\/47574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}