But he said the pool of available brides was limited, a scarcity that increased their value — an irony, given that some rural families, conscious of China's one-child policy, abort female fetuses before birth or abandon newborn girls.
This results in some instances of the policy process being aborted or shifted unexpectedly.
The militancy once sponsored by the Pakistani military as a foreign policy tool now threatens to abort Pakistan's sputtering democracy.
Strict infection control policy and active screening may abort outbreaks.
The conservative commissioners behind the policy have argued Plan B aborts fertilized eggs, despite expert medical testimony to the contrary.
For a long time, the high number of abortions in China was largely ascribed to its one-child policy, with women coerced into aborting children by the threat of heavy fines or the loss of a job — or, in some cases, physically forced to abort, often late in the pregnancy.
Will we and other countries pursue policies that hinder growth and retard or abort a full-blown recovery, e.g., regulations that stifle innovation and taxes that harm the creation and deployment of capital?
From South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Afghan-Pakistani border, pinprick policy solutions have led to ever-lengthening conflicts and aborted attempts at reconstruction.
While the policy succeeded in limiting population growth, it also encouraged families to abort girls.
That number has been cited by some human rights activists, who say that because of China's one-child policy, families often screen for the gender of unborn children and then abort those who are female.
Earlier this summer, the government fired two officials and punished others for their role in abducting Feng Jianmei, a twenty-three-year-old expectant mother, forcing her into a van with a pillowcase over her head, and bundling her into a hospital in order to abort her seven-month-old fetus — in order to adhere with the one-child policy.
