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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