There is indeed sometimes a remarkable consistency of reports and events, cynical but I will not be understood, however: one for Mother's just this issue: abortion.
Jim Yardley (NYT) gives an overview of the phenomenon of increasing abortions among young women (the number of abortions in China is government according to 7 million, in the U.S. at 1.29 million, according to the Federal Statistical Office in Germany at 124 000):
Abortion is legal and widely accessible in China, yet the usual profile is of married women complying, voluntarily or not, with the one-child policy. But as Chinese society rapidly changes, so has the face of abortion.
More young, single women are having abortions and even constitute a majority of those getting abortions in Shanghai and parts of Beijing, according to academic studies and health experts.
Many of these women - migrant workers, urban professionals, prostitutes and students - are having multiple abortions. For this new generation of single women, who have grown up as sexual mores have steadily loosened in China, abortion rates have risen as Chinese society has become more transient and unmoored from the values, and inhibitions, of traditional culture.[...]
[M]illions of young, unmarried women have flocked to cities since the 1980s, a journey that often severs them from their families and more conservative rural values. Urban women, meanwhile, are waiting longer to marry, but not for sexual relationships. A study in Shanghai found that 69 percent of single women had premarital sex. Seven other studies in various cities found that between 20 and 55 percent of the single women surveyed had undergone at least one abortion.
"All the time, my colleagues say they are seeing young girls who have had five or six abortions," said one doctor who has performed abortions at a public hospital in eastern China for nearly two decades. "Many people consider abortion as a contraception method, especially the young girls."
Gründe dafür liegen allerdings auch im Fehlen jeglichen Sexualkundeunterrichts, was zu einem eklatanten Unwissen junger Menschen führt:
Young women, meanwhile, are often confused and searching for information. Hot lines have become popular. One group of teenagers and young women formed an online instant-messaging forum, Women Tribe. In April, an 18-year-old girl was chatting with other members, describing pain and possible complications after she took an abortion pill to end a pregnancy. "I don't have the guts to go the hospital," the woman, who called herself Shuang'er, wrote, uncertain if the pill had worked. "I'm afraid the baby is still there."
"You should go immediately," answered another member, Yingying. "You should not be embarrassed. The last time I went to the hospital, a lot of women were doing this."Similar stories, if less graphic, appear in Chinese newspapers and Web sites. "College student knows nothing about contraception and had four abortions in six years!" a headline on the popular Web portal Sina.com declared recently. This month, two Shanghai newspapers described a spike in teenage abortions in city hospitals that coincided with a recent weeklong national holiday.
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