According to a Radio Free China Report a couple are seeking legal action against the Communist Chinese authorities following a forced abortion. Yang Zhongchen and his wife Jin Yani, under the provisions of the one-child policy, were required to obtain a license to have a first child. Conceiving a child before marriage is an offence. They were forced to wait until Jin was the minimum age of 20 before being married. This meant that their first child, a girl, was according to dictates of the population policy, 'illegal'.

Attempts to bribe local “family planning” officials failed and while Yang was out of town, Jin was abducted on September 7 by local officials a few weeks before her due date. Jin described the incident in which she was taken to a local clinic and her clothes stripped from her. Doctors pushed a large syringe into my stomach. It was very painful. It was all very rough.”Doctors then pulled the dead baby from her body with forceps. While forced abortion is technically illegal in China, it is known that officials, faced with quotas, frequently succumb to what is usually described as “over-zealousness” in enforcing the official one-child policy. Yang and Jin are suing for $38,000 in medical expenses and $130,000 for psychological distress. "They can’t really compensate for all that we have suffered,” Jin told local media. “Our baby will never come back … we just hope this kind of thing will never happen again.”

The couple’s previous attempt at redress in the courts failed. The judges ruled they had broken the law by conceiving out of wedlock. Local family planning officials claimed Jin had consented to the abortion. The couple is appealing the decision.

Editors Note; Such abuses continue within China, occupied Tibet and East Turkestan. Meanhwile, agencies such as the UNFPA , Marie Stopes, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation continue, with the moral, political, and financial support of national governments (like the UK's) to ignore, excuse, and deny such medical atrocities and the harrowing reality of communist China's coercive population programme.