33-year-old Chinese woman, Liu Xinwen, was forcefully dragged from her home in the middle of the night to have an abortion, three months before her child was due to be born.
The mother-of-one was pulled from her bed and taken to hospital to be injected with an abortion-inducing drug.
The desperate man spent five hours trying to find out where Liu Xinwen had been taken as officials refused to tell him.
He eventually found his wife at the People's Hospital of Fangzi District in Weifang City, he arrived just minutes after the injection had been administered.
Mr Zhou claims his wife was forced to sign papers which said she had agreed to the abortion. He said that when she refused she was told if she did not co-operate her husband would be arrested and she would be left with nothing.
Liu told Sky News that after her son was born she had a contraceptive coil inserted, a procedure proscribed by China. She said it must have failed and she discovered she was expecting a second child when she was four months into the pregnancy.
The couple decided not to inform the authorities as they feared a forced abortion and instead hoped to pay a fine after the birth - as this is sometimes acceptable in parts of China.
"My wife was lying in bed. I asked her: 'Have you been injected?' She said 'yes'. I asked if the baby was still moving. She said 'not much'. After that, I didn't want my wife to see my crying. I went outside."
The baby died in her womb and was delivered the following day, it was then the couple discovered they had been due to have a little boy, a younger brother for their son Zhou Junfeng, 10.
The forced abortion is due to China's strict one-baby policy, introduced in 1979 to keep the country's population under control. Liu Xinwen and Zhou Guoqiang already have a son.
This is just barbaric *sad*
ReplyDeleteI wonder hw pple live in such countries with those stupid policies
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