Pictures of the young woman and her dead baby, who was covered in blood have caused outrage and shock within the country and beyond its borders.
Because she already had a child, local birth-control authorities ordered her to pay a fine equal to about $5000.
However, Jianmei couldn't pay the fine because her mother-in-law needed the cash for a cancer treatment.
So 20 members of the local family planning authority placed her under arrest and forcibly took her to a hospital where the abortion was performed against her will.
Chai Ling of the activist group 'All Girls Allowed' said this grisly incident proves how the country's 'One-Child Policy' continues today.
Li Yuongjou, deputy chief of the local family planning department, denied there was any forced abortion: "A lot of us tried for days to educate her. She agreed to the (seven month) abortion herself.""
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