HONG KONG — A Hong Kong woman, visiting her family in June on China’s mainland accompanied by her two children, was surrounded by eight “family-planning” officers and threatened with a forced abortion for violating China’s one-child policy.
The Hong Kong paper The Apple Daily reports that the officers surrounded the 31-year-old woman at a relative’s home in central Hunan province where she was visiting. They then tried to drag her to a hospital to forcibly abort her 6-month-old unborn baby, ignoring the fact that as a citizen of Hong Kong, the woman was not subject to the one-child policy.
“Hong Kong is part of China and also follows China’s policies,” the officials claimed, according to an AFP report. They then stripped her of her travel documents.
She was freed after being allowed to contact Hong Kong immigration officials by phone, who warned the family planning officials that their actions were illegal.
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
