One Culture, Two Legal Regimes:: Abortion in China and Taiwan

Wenmay Rei

doi:10.30965/29498570-20230025

One Culture, Two Legal Regimes: Abortion in China and Taiwan

Wenmay Rei

College of Medicine

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Abstract

China and Taiwan share the same traditional culture that prefers son over daughter, and both of their sex ratios at birth exceeds the natural ratio. Studies believe that this is mainly the result of induced abortion and prenatal sex-identification techniques. However, China and Taiwan actually have very different legal regime when regulating abortion. Abortion is legal in China but is a crime in Taiwan. Yet, free from China’s one-child policy women’s reproductive freedom and fetus life are better protected in Taiwan. This country report introduces their different legal regime on abortion and explains how it affects women’s right and fetus’ life.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	301-307
Number of pages	7
Journal	Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ethik
Volume	69
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.30965/29498570-20230025 https://doi.org/10.30965/29498570-20230025
State	Published - Jan 2023

Keywords

one-child policy
abortion
family planning
reproductive freedom

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