China's forced abortion photo under one-child policy sparks outrage in country

Beijing, June 14 (ANI): A photo showing a baby whose mother was forced to have an abortion has shocked human rights groups and Chinese Internet users.

ng Jiamei was allegedly forced to undergo an abortion by local officials in the seventh month of her pregnancy, The BBC reports.

Feng was forced into an abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child, US-based activists said.

Rights groups said that China's one-child policy has meant women are being coerced into abortions, which has been denied by Beijing.

"Feng Jianmei's story demonstrates how the One-Child Policy continues to sanction violence against women every day," Chai Ling of the US-based activist group All Girls Allowed said.

The group said that it spoke to Feng and her husband Deng Jiyuan after the incident who said that Feng had been forcibly taken to hospital and restrained before the procedure.

Unnamed local officials in Zhenping, however, denied forcing Feng to have the abortion.

"This is what they say the Japanese devils and Nazis did. But it's happening in reality and it is by no means the only case... They [the officials] should be executed," one reader on news website netease.com said. (ANI)