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Guiyang to ban abortion after 14 weeks
(xinhua)
Updated: 2004-12-16 16:20

Medical personnel and institutions in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, will soon be banned from offering abortions to women who are beyond the 14th week of pregnancy, the Beijing Daily Messenger reported.

According to regulations issued early this week, those who violate the regulations will be fined up to 30,000 yuan (US$3,614) or six times the amount received from performing the abortion,

The city government will also prohibit fetal gender identification for non-medical purposes and termination of gestation for gender selection starting Jan. 1, 2005. Violators will have to pay 20,000 to 30,000 yuan (US$2,409 to US$3,614) in fines.

Medicine retailers will be asked to stop selling medicine to terminate gestation and medicine producers and wholesalers can no longer sell those medicines to institutions or personnel who are not permitted to offer the surgery, the regulations say.

A woman who is pregnant for more than 14 weeks can only have an abortion if the fetus has a serious genetic disease, deformity or other serious disease, if further gestation may endanger the woman 's life or severely affect her health or if she is divorced or deprived of spouses, the regulations say.

Since 1999, the sex ratio at birth in Guiyang has been above the normal range of 103 to 108 males per 100 females, with the 2003 ratio standing at 110:100.



 
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