When her cousin was 10 years old, Zhang's aunt and uncle decided to try for another baby. Eight months into the pregnancy, the couple went to stay with another aunt to hide before the birth. Someone reported them.
He gave my aunt an injection to induce her and two days later, she delivered a stillborn baby. Zhang's aunt, now 46, has missed her chance to try for a second child now that the policy has changed, but she mourns for the chance she lost and the brutal way her second child was taken from her.
Apart from forced abortions, family planning authorities kept details of the menstrual cycles of women of childbearing age — pelvic examination results and blood tests.
Most women were fitted with IUDs and summonsed for mandatory tests every three months. But despite witnessing the brutality of these policies up close, Zhang's desire for more than one child was stronger than the fear of facing what her aunt had gone through.
Women would often cheat and have a non-pregnant friend or relative do the test, Zhang says. Some praise the policy for having lifted large parts of China out of poverty, and the government estimates that it has prevented million births and contributed to China's dramatic economic take-off since the s. It was a lucrative financial resource for the government too, with estimates suggesting that over the 30 years of the policy, billions of dollars were collected in fines from families who had an extra child.
But for families like Susan's, Ming Ming's and the many others who defied the one-child policy, that forbidden sibling was always worth the risk. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. She thought it was a game and happily complied. One of the harshest family planning policies in the world. China onscreen: Four documentaries spotlight the human consequences of state policy and economic growth.
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