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Appeal for Girls to better-protect themselves
31/8/2005 17:24

Gu Jia/Shanghai Daily news

Over 200 young girls, aged from 13 to 18, have undergone abortions at the People's Liberation Army No. 411 Hospital in the past two months, today's Youth Daily reports.
All these girls are the target of a help-line set up by the hospital which offers information and advice about unexpected pregnancies and other reproductive issues.
Since July 8, the help-line has received over 1,500 calls from young women, with over a third of them seeking advice on contraception, physical knowledge and abortion.
According to statistics from the Hospital, the number of pregnant girls who have contacted the Hospital has doubled over the past two months compared to the same period last year.
The worry is that almost half of these young women take no account of the harm that the operations can do to both their bodies and their minds.
Zhang Zhengrong, vice-director physician at the Hospital, pointed out that it's bad social attitudes that lead to "maiden mothers" seeing the solution as just being a matter of undergoing "simple" surgery, and that the lack of sex education was the principle cause of the problem.