HONG KONG, July 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) A Hong Kong woman, visiting her family in June on Chinas mainland accompanied by her two children, was surrounded by eight "family-planning" officers and threatened with a forced abortion for violating Chinas one-child policy.
The Hong Kong paper The Apple Daily reports that the officers surrounded the 31 year-old woman at a relatives 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 Chinas 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.
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
