Chinese Hospitals Aborted Late-Stage Pregnancies and Killed Newborns

Hospitals in Xinjiang aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of China's mission to erase Uighur culture, a doctor who worked in the region told Radio Free Asia. In 2017, China passed a law limiting Uighurs and other ethnic minorities to having three children if they live in rural areas or two if they live in urban areas. Hasiyet Abdulla, a Uighur doctor who spent 15 years working in hospitals in Xinjiang and now lives in Turkey, told RFA that when a child was expected to be born into a family who already had two or three children or who'd had a child in the past three years, the pregnancy would be terminated, even at "eight and nine months." Sometimes medical staff members would "even kill the babies after they'd been born," Abdulla said.