China’s Abortion Numbers Grow
Demographic shifts from one-child couples to young, single women.
XI'AN, CHINA| The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie in unmarked graves dug by women from the abortion clinic across the street.
The staff at the small clinic in the heart of this ancient city don't bury most of the fetuses - only those that have reached three or four months, when they clearly resemble miniature babies.
"This big," says anesthesiologist Liu Jianmin, using her thumb and index finger to measure out the length of a lipstick tube. The burials are a gesture of respect for lives cut short, she adds, and the patients aren't told.
It is a secret hiding in plain sight, much like the rising rate of abortions among young, unmarried women in China.
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