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Abortions are very common in China; a women having her second or even third child is strongly encouraged to receive an abortion, and it is readily available to her. Abortions in China, however, are often shocking and disturbing. Unauthorized pregnancies are aborted during any stage of the pregnancy. The fetus may be viable(able to survive outside of the mother) to perform an abortion. There are an estimated half a million abortions within the third trimester per year in China. Most of these children were viable when the abortion occurred, and most often the a