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In China on June 3, 2012, a young pregnant Feng Jianmei was forcibly aborted of her 7 month old baby after failing to pay RMB 40,000 in fines for violating China’s One-Child Policy.
Chinese Family Planning Officials waited until Feng was alone and her husband was at work. They then beat her and dragged her into a vehicle, took her to a hospital, and forced her to sign an abortion consent form by inking her thumb and pressing it to the form.
The officials then had the doctors inject a toxin into the unborn baby’s brain, which eventually caused the baby to pass. ”I could feel the baby jumping around inside me all the time, but then she went still,” the mother recounted.
“They covered her head with a pillowcase. She couldn’t do anything because they were restraining her,” the husband stated.
Feng gave birth to the deceased baby the following day, which they then laid next to her on her hospital bed.