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Last January in China's Gansu province, a woman named Ma Weihua was arrested while transporting 56 ounces of heroin. Under the Communist Chinese criminal code, people convicted of trafficking that amount of heroin can be executed--unless, of course, they act on behalf of the government's intelligence agencies or allied criminal syndicates.
Following Ma's arrest, however, "prison doctors discovered during a routine physical exam that she was approximately seven weeks pregnant," reported Medical News Today on August 27. "Under Chinese law, pregnant women and people younger than age 18 cannot be executed." Pregnancy is a self-terminating condition, and Ma insisted that she wanted to carry the child to term. However, Chinese ...
Source: HighBeam Research, More compelled abortion in China.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)