Ban on aborting embryos after three months protects right to life
THE STANDING Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, discussed a draft of the general provisions of Civil Code on Monday, which includes articles protecting the rights of embryos. A comment on Beijing News calls for further legislation to prohibit abortion of embryos of 3 months or older:
It is good that the top legislature has been protecting the rights of embryos. However, the right to life of embryos, which is the basis to all other rights, is not under protection yet and that's something that needs to be improved.
Many countries prohibit abortions after an embryo is 3 months old. However, there is no such restriction here, as a result of which many abortions are done when an embryo is older than 3 months, which has occasionally been at the cost of pregnant women's lives.
