BEIJING, (LSN.ca) – A new law on abortion in China will, for the first time, give fathers the right to veto abortion decisions made by their wives. The China Daily reports today that the new Law on Family Planning and Population, which takes effect on September 1 “states that both husband and wife should share same responsibility in family planning, so neither side should enjoy the sole right on whether to give birth to a baby.”
Pro-lifers are hopeful that the law may save the lives of some unborn children and the anguish fathers experience when their children are killed by abortion despite their ardent desire to save them. However, the wording of the law, as reported, leaves open the possibility that husbands may have a legal right to force their wives to abort their children. With coerced abortion already common in China, legal rights to such measures would only serve to increase the horror.
See the coverage in the China Daily.
(This update courtesy of LifeSite News.)