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Forced abortion outrages Chinese
A pregnant woman who was dragged to a hospital by authorities and forced to have an abortion has enraged Chinese and sparked an online flurry of debate over whether it is time to end China's draconian one-child family planning policy.
"Our country is the inventor of family mittees, how couldn't we have accumulated enough experience after so many years? Must they kill people? Cold-blooded scum!" television director Liu Kang said in an online posting.
The scandal erupted when photos were posted online showing mother Feng Jianmei lying on a hospital bed with the corpse of her daughter. Feng, who was in her seventh month of pregnancy, said she was dragged into a vehicle, her head covered and her legs beaten, then taken to a hospital for the injections that killed and induced delivery of her unborn child.
Feng said she was forced to have an abortion because she could not pay the $6,300 fine for a second child.
In years past, Feng's forced abortion would have happened with little public reaction. But -based social media tools allow individual Chinese to take their stories directly to the people and are forcing the government to plaints.
As of Thursday, comments on Feng's abortion neared 1 million on the Twitter-like micro-blog Sina Weibo. Many of ments were calls to relax the res