Although investigations have pointed to countless similar incidents being carried out every day under the country's brutal one-child policy, the abuse is usually hidden behind a shroud of secrecy - making Luo Yanqua's account a rare glimpse into the world of Chinese population control tactics.
All Girls Allowed, a young organization founded by a leader of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989, noted that according to China's own official statistics, at least 35,000 abortions are performed every day, or about one every 2.5 seconds.
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