The couple claim that they were awoken at 4am last week after their door was kicked down and two dozen officials from the Shandong Province Family Planning Commission forced their way into their home.
Friday, 4 October 2013
A Chinese woman has revealed she was dragged from her home in the middle of the night and forced to have an abortion, three months before her child was due to be born.
Liu Xinwen, 33, and her husband Zhou Guoqiang were left devastated after the mother-of-one was pulled from her bed and taken to hospital to be injected with an abortion-inducing drug.
The forced abortion is due to China's strict one-baby policy, introduced in 1979 to keep the country's population under control - the couple already have a son.
'My wife was lying in bed. I asked her: 'Have you been injected?' She said 'yes'. I asked if the baby was still moving.'
She said 'not much,' he told Sky News.
'After that, I didn't want my wife to see my crying. I went outside.'
The baby died in her womb and was delivered a day later.
It was then the couple discovered they had been due to have a little boy, a younger brother for their son Zhou Junfeng, 10.
A sobbing Liu Xinwen told of her grief at aborting her baby saying, 'I miss him.'
