Chinese Woman Forced To Abort Six Months Pregnancy' Under Country's One-Child Policy

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.

Liu Xinwen, 33, and her husband Zhou Guoqiang were left devastated after she was taken to a hospital to be injected with an abortion-inducing drug.

Mr Zhou told how he was held down on the sofa while his terrified wife was taken away. He then spent a desperate five hours trying to find out where Liu Xinwen had been taken as officials refused to tell him,when he eventually found his wife at the People's Hospital of Fangzi District in Weifang City, he arrived just minutes after the injection had been administered. A horrific photo (inset) he took as evidence shows the foetus in an orange bucket next to Liu Xinwen curled up on the hospital bed.

'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 - a horrific photo shows the foetus in an orange bucket next to Liu Xinwen curled up on the hospital bed.

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.'

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