Abstract
This article addresses the issue of the incidence of abortion during recent years in China. It poses and answers three interrelated questions: (1) What has been the role of abortion in the country’s population planning successes since the early 1970s? (2) What are the patterns of variations in abortion incidence at the provincial level and by place of residence? and, (3) What are the implications of their numbers and variations?KeywordsContraceptive MethodFertility TransitionUnplanned PregnancyUrban SectorRural SectorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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