Accounts of women being coerced into late-term abortions by local officials have thrust a policy that penalizes families in China for having more than one child into the spotlight.
Pressure To Repeal China’s One-child Law Is Growing
By EDWARD WONG, New York Times
Sun, 07/22/2012 - 5:44pm
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