[Exclusive] The family planning tragedy of the party with the surname of the womb (Part 2): The victims of "Shanghuan" and "Shangjia"

Since China opened the door to having a second child in 2017, the state has encouraged women to take out the IUD, but there are also Chinese women who are not so lucky. Until now, they have not been able to remove the metal ring residue from their body, or because the ligated fallopian tube silver clip has eroded, resulting in organs resection. How does the Chinese government treat these Chinese women who have to suffer the consequences of the policy all their lives? Our reporter Zheng Chongsheng produced two episodes of an exclusive special report "The Family Planning Tragedy of the Uterus Surnamed Party", please listen to the next episode below.

[Exclusive] The tragedy of family planning with the surname of the womb (Part 1): the mouse under the sterilization needle

Fifty-eight-year-old Jing Liping lives alone in a dangerous building on the outskirts of Beijing. Having a child is equivalent to a lonely life without a child. She gave birth to her third child more than 30 years ago.

Under China's family planning policy, "have no money to live by stealth" is her portrayal. In 1990, after Jing Liping hid back to her mother's house to give birth to her son, she returned to her husband's house in Gansu after a full month. The family planning team caught up with her and forced her to undergo tubal ligation and metal clips. Although her life was safe, her life was ruined.

Jing Liping told reporters that after she was on Yinjiao, she would fall into a coma as long as she had sex, so her first husband divorced her and took away his son. She later reorganized her family twice, but her physical condition still did not improve, and she also ended up divorced until she was sent to the hospital for the first time in a coma in public in 2013.

"At that time, it was diagnosed that I had inflammation of the fallopian tubes, but I had no conditions to treat it, so I could only rely on others to give me some anti-inflammatory drugs. I didn't do a detailed examination before, because once it was said that I had been ligated, no local doctor in Gansu was willing to help. Look, I don’t even write you a medical record. It wasn’t until 2017 that I passed out on the side of the road and was sent to the hospital to find out that there was a problem with the clip. The fallopian tubes had been inflamed for a long time, and they already had brown tissue, so I could only remove the fallopian tubes.” Jing Li Ping said.

Isn't Jing Liping's situation a sequelae of birth control surgery? In 2020, the Gansu Provincial Health and Health Commission finally issued an official identification document under the repeated requests of the parties, but the result of the judgment was "not a complication after birth control surgery", which is different from the conclusion drawn by a third-party identification agency .

Beijing Yunzhi Science Review Center is a compliance appraisal institution registered by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce. In 2021, according to the pathological diagnosis report of the Gansu Maternal and Child Health Hospital and the relevant data of Gansu Province, it is believed that Jing Liping has pelvic foreign bodies and ovarian cysts, etc. Other complications, resulting in the removal of the fallopian tubes, "are complications of birth control surgery."

Chinese-style appraisal: The government is the player and the referee

However, in accordance with China's "Administrative Measures for the Identification and Management of Complications in Family Planning Surgery (Trial)", the population and family planning department of Yuzhong County, Gansu Province is responsible for the identification and management of Jing Liping's complications. The large-scale investigation and promotion of family planning and birth control work a few years ago were not the reason for Jing Liping's health condition, and it is said that this is recognized by China's legal system, and Gansu Province has a legal basis.

A staff member surnamed Zheng of the Gansu Provincial Health and Health Commission briefly told reporters on the phone, "We have all been appraised at the county, city and provincial levels. This (decision) is made by experts, and neither are we. Those who study medicine are only engaged in administration, and we only 'respect the opinions of experts'. Her appraisal unit does not belong to us (approved)."

Jing Liping does not accept such a statement, "How did the brown tissue in my fallopian tube come from? Why is my fallopian tube inflamed? Why did I lose sexual function after the birth control operation? You explained these issues to me clearly. You said no I also recognize the complications, but you don't!" She said that the report entrusted by the Gansu Provincial Health and Health Commission to the experts should be avoided, and she has to appeal for reconsideration.

Cases like Jing Liping have been seen and dealt with too many times by Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist who has helped many women who have been victims of family planning policies defend their rights in Shandong in the past. He told this station that the family planning policy reflects that China is basically a desert under the rule of law. In the past, the family planning policy was implemented by violent means, which has occurred in many provinces in China. Before the operation, an informed consent decision will be prepared and signed by the public. Chen Guangcheng said that this is "using power to play hooligans". How can hooligans be held responsible when something goes wrong?

He told reporters, "According to the principle of fairness in the law, this identification should be done by an independent third party. But the law is still a tool in China, it is not (for) achieving social justice, it is a tool used by the Communist Party to control the people The biggest obstacle to the realization of the rule of law in China is the Communist Party of China. The party is above the law and the state. This is the main reason."

Sheung Wan or Takes the Ring Chinese Women Ca n't Help

In China, the party controls everything, including having children. In order to solve the problem of the aging population caused by the long-term one-child birth, the government began to encourage women to take out the birth control ring in 2017. The latest official data show that China, the world's largest female Sheung Wan country, has reversed the number of women in Sheung Wan, the first time in more than 40 years. In 2019, 3.25 million cases of female IUDs were removed, surpassing the 3.01 million cases in Sheung Wan.

But Teng Youxia in Anhui is not one in 3.25 million. Because of the failure of the ring removal operation many years ago, the metal ring residue had entered the organs, and she was in critical condition for a time, but no medical institution was willing to perform the operation on her.

Teng Youxia's husband, Li Kai, accused the government of Fanchang County, Anhui Province, that they did not perform the ring removal operation at first, and then concealed it. They didn't know the situation until they went to other provinces and cities for medical treatment, but the local government used all its powers to prevent Teng Youxia from removing the metal ring. Residual, her health is getting worse and worse.

"It was in 1991. Before the moon was born, my wife was forced to undergo a circumcision, and the operation was performed at home, right on my bed. After that, my wife's condition was not good, bleeding, and even blood in her urine. We took the ring in 1997, but halfway through the operation my wife was bleeding profusely, so she didn’t finish it, and the situation didn’t improve after that, until I went to Kunshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jiangsu in 2013 to find out that there was a metal ring left in the photo.”

Because of the residual metal ring, Teng Youxia has removed the uterus and ovaries, and has also performed bladder suspension surgery. What annoyed Li Kai the most was that if he hadn't petitioned the Central Health and Family Planning Commission in Beijing in 2016, he wouldn't have known that Fanchang County had already reported the incomplete operation of Teng Youxia's ring removal, and the state had also distributed the relevant budget to local,” Director Shen, a director of the Central Health and Family Planning Commission, said that the country has already paid for this money, which means that your local government has not dealt with things, we have not received the money at all, and we have not read this report at all. I've been hiding it all the time," Li Kai told reporters angrily.

The couple sought help from hospitals in Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, but they were violently kidnapped by the local Anhui government and refused to see a doctor. There are also media reports in China that the couple had nowhere to turn to more than 20 hospitals for help. Li Kai said that now it has evolved into a medical dispute, and everyone is afraid. Doctors say "where to put the ring, where to take it".

Li Kai, who works by himself in Shanghai, can only leave the job of taking care of his wife to his only son in his hometown, "Our family is no longer a family, and all the money I make is going to my wife to see a doctor, otherwise she would have died long ago. Now, what can be done. I hope that the state should be responsible for what (the state) does. Faced with this matter, it should be solved practically, and it should not be delayed again and again, and the life of the common people should not be used as a ladder for individual cadres to climb up. , let my wife do the operation."

As of press time, the station has repeatedly called the Anhui Provincial Health and Health Commission and the Anhui Wuhu City Health and Health Commission, but no one has answered.

Requesting public information to establish national compensation for victims of "Four Techniques" and sterilization needles

"Shenghuan, sterilization, induction of labor, and abortion" are the "four techniques" that Chinese women have faced over the past 40 years under China's family planning policy. How many victims are there?

Official figures show that between 1980 and 2009, China performed at least 600 million four surgeries. Some Chinese literature infers that even in the most ideal state, even if the incidence of sequelae is only 1%, six million women, like Jing Liping and Teng Youxia, will fall sick and suffer.

This does not include sterilization needle victims who are not publicly recorded in Chinese official statistics, such as Peng Dongxiang from Hubei mentioned in the previous episode.

Zhang Jing, the founder of Chinese women's rights in New York, said that China's family planning policy is like a chain that has been around the necks of Chinese women and has never been taken off. She called on the Chinese government to declassify the data, revise the law and formulate a reasonable state compensation method for complications of family planning surgery, and face the past honestly, so that it is possible to face the future.

"Decrypt the data and formulate a state compensation system. China can save a lot of money by making one less missile, which is enough to compensate Chinese women. This is what Chinese women should ask for, and the All-China Women's Federation should also speak out." Zhang Jing said.

Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population issues and a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, said that China should fundamentally amend the constitution, delete the clause that the family planning policy is a basic national policy, and immediately stop the family planning policy, and the state should not promote the three-child policy. , "This only signifies that China's family planning has not stopped at all, it is endless, it is a mockery of the government."

Yi Fuxian believes that it is up to the people whether to have children and how many children they have. What the government should do is to create a better living environment and conditions so that people are willing to have children, but the Chinese government is still reluctant to let go and wants to give guidance and guidance. It shows that "family planning has not been abolished, and there are still huge interest groups that want to influence China's population policy." Yi Fuxian said.

He also agreed to review the harm caused to the people by the family planning policy in the past. "If the government does not admit its mistakes, how can you correct the mistakes?" Yi Fuxian asked rhetorically.

This is indeed the case. Jing Liping cried out, "Like me, who has been harassed by family planning like this, who dares to give birth, who dares to serve the country for you, who dares!"