When summer vacation comes, more girl students take this opportunity to have an induced abortion. Two organizations that offer medical aid for pregnant girl students in Zhengzhou have received more patients than usual these days. Every day, there are students going there to take induced abortion.

Li Ting was a student who studied in a college outside her native province of Henan. Upon returning there for summer vacation, she went to the Henan Aid Center for Pregnant Adolescents. As she had been in the family way for over three months, she had to have a miscarriage. Li said that she found herself pregnant a month before the summer vacation. At that time, she was preparing for the final exams, so she had to postpone her abortion plan.

Director of the Henan Aid Center for Pregnant Adolescents Song Dapeng said that since the center was established, many students from middle schools and colleges came there for induced abortion. When summer vacation arrives, more students would come, Song predicted.

Since the center was set up in May, last year, it has helped 1,000 adolescents to take surgical operation. Most of them received a normal operation but for some, since they had been pregnant for a long period of time, they had to have dilatation and curettage. Summer and winter vacations are considered as the booming period for students to take induced abortion.
The Henan Aid Center for Pregnant Adolescents was located inside the local Armed Police Hospital. Since it was open to the public three months ago, it has offered aid for 500 people and helped 100 girls to end pregnancy. Most of the students who came there lived in cities and the youngest one was only 14.

"Affected by some social views, some girl students regard casual sex as a trendy thing to do. They don't know how to protect themselves and how to face sex issue properly. At a young age, they suffer from physical and mental damage. Sometimes such damage might be permanent," said Niu Sulin, deputy director of the Social Sciences Institute under the Henan Academy of Social Sciences.