Morning Briefing

In this Washington Times opinion piece, Chai Ling, president of the non-profit group All Girls Allowed and author of "A Heart for Freedom," examines the issue of abortions performed on single women in China in relation to the country's family planning policy, which in most provinces requires couples to be married to obtain a birth permit, without which they are not permitted to have a child. She writes, "Though the problem of skyrocketing abortion rates among single Chinese women has been highlighted by the media and attributed to a lack of sex education, no one has connected the problem to this tragic equation: no marriage certificate, no birth permit. No birth permit, no baby. Millions of unmarried women in China get pregnant, but none is allowed to give birth to her baby."