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Abortion in China
Abortion in the People's Republic of China is legal and generally accessible nationwide, but has become subject to increasing restrictions in the 2020s. Abortions are available to most women through China's family planning program, public hospitals, private hospitals, and clinics nationwide. Following the Chinese Communist Revolution and the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the country has periodically switched between more restrictive abortion policies to more liberal abortion policies and reversals. Abortion regulations may vary depending on the rules of the province. In an effort to curb sex-selective abortion, Jiangxi and Guizhou restrict non-medically necessary abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy, while throughout most of China abortions are legal after 14 weeks. Although sex-selective abortions are illegal nationwide, they were previously commonplace, leading to a sex-ratio imbalance in China which still exists. In the past, virtually universal access to...
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