Forced abortion
As forced abortion refers to an abortion , which is enforced by the authorities. It curtails human rights to sexuality and procreation .
The compulsion to terminate the pregnancy by violence or by threatening a sensitive evil curtails personal freedom. In addition, unborn children also have rights; the children's rights convention protects children both before and after birth.
Germany
Forced abortions were among those affected by forced labor during the National Socialist era . In addition, in the context of eugenics and National Socialist racial hygiene, children were murdered for reasons of so-called euthanasia ; On the basis of the law for the prevention of hereditary offspring , people were made sterile through forced sterilization .
North Korea
Soon Ok Lee testimony before the United States Senate , pregnant prisoners are forced to have abortions by injections in camps; Babies born alive anyway would be killed immediately after birth.
East Timor
Forced sterilizations , forced abortions and contraception for population control and Indonesization are reported from East Timor from the Indonesian occupation .
People's Republic of China
In the People's Republic of China , in order to enforce one-child families , there are also forced abortions and forced sterilizations, according to media reports. If a woman has another child, the family has to pay high fines and face further disadvantages. In some regions of China, however, a family whose first child is a girl is allowed to have another child. This unequal treatment is strongly criticized by human rights organizations.
Among the publicly known cases is 31-year-old Pan Chunyan ( Chinese 潘 春 煙 ), who was forced to have an abortion in the eighth month of pregnancy. In June 2012, the case of 23-year-old Feng Jianmei ( 冯建梅 ), who was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month, became known.
People in Tibet are also affected by forced abortions , reports the International Society for Human Rights .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ United States Senate Hearings: Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee, June 21, 2002. United States Senate Judicial Committee, archived from original on December 24, 2013 ; accessed on September 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Resistance to one-child policy Photo of forced abortion angered Chinese. In: Spiegel online , June 15, 2012 ( online )
- ↑ a b c FAZ.net: China still only allows one child per family (accessed on January 14, 2013)
- ↑ Merciless Policy - Eighth Month Abortion
- ↑ Forced Abortion in Shaanxi Province
- ↑ The case of the Chinese woman Feng Jianmei
- ↑ Forced abortion in the seventh month
- ↑ Authorities apologize
- ↑ International Society for Human Rights , 1999 ( online )
