757 mothers again pregnant after having lost their children in the earthquake
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January 26th, 2009
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757 Chinese mothers having lost their children in the earthquake of May 12 in the Sichuan (southwest) are enclosed again, benefitting from exceptions to the politics on the population, indicated of the persons responsible of the national Commission of the Population and the Scheduling domestic Friday, at the time of a press conference.
Until December 31, 5 724 mothers having lost their children benefitted free services of procreation, of which consultations, of the medical exams and the special treatments.
The earthquake of a magnitude of 8,0 degrees on the scale opened from Richter of the province of the Sichuan made at least 70 000 deaths, of which a big number of children.
According to the Chinese politics of l" ‘unique child", measure bet in application since 30 years aiming to reduce the demographic growth, most urban couples can only have one child. The farming couples are allowed to have two of them if the first is a girl.
According to the commission of the population of the Sichuan, at least 10 000 families lost their children in the earthquake.
According to a circular published after the earthquake, the national commission announced that the families whose children had been killed or had become handicapped were allowed to have other children.
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