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To implement the two-child policy, the Chinese government is offering free removal of IUDs to encourage women to get pregnant.
Women were inserted IUDs as a mandatory measure during the long-standing practice of the one-child policy. The government scrapped the one-child policy last year.
Many women were outraged by the offer of the government, saying that the government shouldn't have required IUD insertions in the first place.
An advertising executive, Ms. Lu, said, "We shouldn't have done this in the first place, and now the government wants to use it as a state benefit to the people."
The IUDs used in China will have to be removed surgically unlike other devices that can be removed in the doctor's clinic. The IUDs in China are made of stainless steel and have a very short string or no string at all.
Many women were fitted by IUDs after childbirth and are expected to wear it until menopause. However, not all women were told that the IUDs only last for 20 years.
This miseducation in the use of IUDs caused women to have infections and other reproductive diseases.
Ai Xiaoming, a documentary filmmaker, had to undergo a hysterectomy because of grave infections from her IUD.
There were 324 million women who had IUD insertion until 2014. About 107 million women underwent tubal ligation.
Han Haoyue, a columnist, reacted on Weibo and said that women in China were subjected to "forced acts of mutilation."
He added, "And now, to say that they are offering free removal as a service to these tens of thousands of women--repeatedly broadcasting this on state television as a kind of state benefit--they have no shame, second to none."
