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Nature 394, 707 (20 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/29354
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China's 'eugenics' law still disturbing despite relabelling
Abstract
As hoped, international discussions in Beijing on controversial family planning legislation have been productive. But China's law still gives grounds for worry.
Just under ten years ago, the Chinese province of Gansu introduced a local law graphically described in its initial English translation as "prohibiting reproduction of dull-witted, idiots or blockheads". For much of the intervening period, the Chinese government in Beijing has been attempting to draw up and put into practice a national law which, it claims, is aimed at the same public health objective, namely reducing the incidence of physical and mental disability, in particular through prenatal genetic screening.
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