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Women in China get phone calls from government workers asking: 'Are you pregnant now?'

www.channelnewsasia.com Women in China get phone calls from government workers asking: 'Are you pregnant now?'

Women in China share bizarre accounts of receiving random calls from government grassroot workers, asking them about plans for pregnancy – a measure said to be part of broader incentives by the Chinese government to boost birth rates.

Women in China get phone calls from government workers asking: 'Are you pregnant now?'
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  • The survey would target women of child-bearing age, between the ages of 15 and 49

    A fifteen year old girl is not a "woman," she is a child. All of this is appalling but that line stood out in particular to me.

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