It was 25 years ago, but Mao Hengfeng still vividly remembers the piercing cries of her baby. Yet instead of being able to hold her newborn child, she watched helplessly while her baby was drowned in a bucket. She had been seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her fourth child. Under China’s one-child policy, she was carrying the baby “illegally” so she was dragged onto an operating table to have it aborted. “The baby was alive, I could hear the baby cry,” she said, fighting back tears. “They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing.” PERSONAL COST But that was not the end of Mao’s ordeal. While she was still suffering from severe haemorrhaging after the abortion, officials tried to...
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