Chinese woman ordered to have abortion after moving province is allowed to keep child
Teacher originally told to terminate pregnancy as her new home had tougher rules on one-child policy
A pregnant woman from China, who was ordered to have an abortion after she moved to an area with different rules on the one-child policy, has been told she can keep the baby, state media reported.
The family planning commission in Guizhou province has overturned a ruling by county level officials saying that she should terminate the pregnancy, Xinhua said.
Tan Yi was originally told in her home city of Huangshan in Anhui province that she could have a second baby because she was divorced from the father of her first child. Huangshan is where her residency was registered.
She later moved to Libo county in Guizhou with her second husband, but was told the pregnancy had to be terminated because one-child policy rules were enforced more strictly there. Her new husband, Meng Shaoping, also has a daughter by a previous marriage.
Tan is a teacher and five months pregnant and was warned that she would lose her job if she did not have an abortion by the end of May.
The education bureau and family planning commission in Guizhou's Libo county announced its decision in a notice on Monday.
The authority was investigating whether Tan transferred her residency to Anhui this year to get permission to give birth.
Anhui lets couples to have a child if they don't have more than two children from previous marriages, whereas Guizhou only lets a couple have a child if there is just one previous child.
The case attracted considerable media attention in China, with stories about the enforcement of one-child policy rules regularly making headlines.
It showed how different areas have different family planning rules and how unyielding the mainland's birth limits continue to be despite a loosening in the 35-year-old policy to let more couples to have two children.
The government eased the policy last year to allow couples who themselves were only childs to apply to have more than one baby.
With additional reporting from AFP
