Forced Contraception

[Randy W]

This is nothing new - I remember a conversation on CFL a few years back about IUD's that had been in place for more than a few years

 

Forced contraception

 

she was told by the local residential community's administrator that she would not get a hukou, or household registration, for her firstborn unless she placed an intrauterine device (IUD), a contraception ring, inside her womb.

 

. . .

 

Back in the 1970s when the policy was adopted, male sterilization was encouraged. When a man had the operation, villagers would march to his place, beating gongs and drums to celebrate his "contribution" and provide him with rich food.

 

Now it is the women who take the risk, often because they do not want their breadwinner husbands to risk getting infections or complications.

[Fu Lai]

Good again for the Chinese.

[Doug]

So in the long long run maybe the USA headed there...... but save te pets...

[credzba]

fyi kind of information for you old guys.

As this article mentions most of our wives got this form of birth control.

 

In a checkup my wives doctor mentioned this is easy to remove before menopause, but more difficult after.

if it was installed with the string shown in the pictures, it is office proceedure, but often the Chinese installed "permanent" and there is no string.

without string, they have to put the woman to sleep because it is painful.

 

Still, these iud were never meant to be in there forever.

Consult your wife and her doctor to see if some action is needed to keep you wife healthy.

 

[Randy W]

fyi kind of information for you old guys.

As this article mentions most of our wives got this form of birth control.

 

In a checkup my wives doctor mentioned this is easy to remove before menopause, but more difficult after.

if it was installed with the string shown in the pictures, it is office proceedure, but often the Chinese installed "permanent" and there is no string.

without string, they have to put the woman to sleep because it is painful.

 

Still, these iud were never meant to be in there forever.

Consult your wife and her doctor to see if some action is needed to keep you wife healthy.

 

I don't think it's "most", but there were at least a couple of members whose wives had had one implanted, with little, or more likely no, medical follow-up.

[Mick]

Li had one of these damnable things installed and it gave her fits. She was in constant pain, had repeated episodes of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, swollen ovaries - you name it. One time the infection got so bad her white count went up to 17000 and her temp was 104. Finally, after much red tape and paying at least two "processing fees" (bribes), she was allowed to have it removed. The docs told her that due to scarring from the P.I.D. it would be unlikely that she would ever conceive or if she did, carry a pregnancy to full term. Yet miracle of miracles, four months after we returned to the States she was pregnant and Salina was born nine months later.

[Zhou Zhou]

fyi kind of information for you old guys.

As this article mentions most of our wives got this form of birth control.

 

In a checkup my wives doctor mentioned this is easy to remove before menopause, but more difficult after.

if it was installed with the string shown in the pictures, it is office proceedure, but often the Chinese installed "permanent" and there is no string.

without string, they have to put the woman to sleep because it is painful.

 

Still, these iud were never meant to be in there forever.

Consult your wife and her doctor to see if some action is needed to keep you wife healthy.

 

Interesting you posted this...my wife went through the removal procedure last month...you're right there was no string so the Gyn couldn't remove it without putting her to sleep in a minor surgical hospital. She came through it very well. The next day I missed her and looked out the window and found her raking leaves. Oh, btw her sister back in Fujian had her's removed while awake...no other option. The Gyn said in the US they remove them after 10 years...sister-in-law's and lao po was in for >25 years. ZZ

[Randy W]

Now an update on this policy - from the NY Times

 

After One-Child Policy, Outrage at China’s Offer to Remove IUDs

 

A few months after Lu Qiumei gave birth to her daughter in 2012, local officials visited her home and told her that she was required to be fitted with an intrauterine device.

For more than three decades, this was national policy in China. The IUD was the government’s most important tool for limiting couples to one child, and almost all new mothers were required to get one.

Ms. Lu, a former advertising executive, considered the demand invasive, insulting and potentially harmful to her health. Still, like hundreds of millions of Chinese women before her, she made an appointment with a state gynecologist and had one put in.

Now, a year after abandoning the “one-child” policy, the government is hoping to make it up to Ms. Lu and millions of women like her — by removing their IUDs, free of charge. But the offer, made without even a hint of an apology, has provoked incredulous outrage.

. . .

“Our country provides support in terms of law, finance and service systems to ensure citizens’ access to the free removal of IUDs,” said the official, Song Li of the National Health and Family Planning Commission’s department of women and children.

But the head-spinning reversal, the paternalistic attitude, the failure to accept any culpability — for some, it was too much. Within hours of the news conference, the internet was fuming with indignation.

The mass implantation of IUDs amounted to “involuntary, forced acts of mutilation,” Han Haoyue, a popular columnist, wrote in a post shared nearly 3,000 times on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. “And now, to say they are offering free removal as a service to these tens of millions of women — repeatedly broadcasting this on state television as a kind of state benefit — they have no shame, second to none.”