Chinese women forced to register for morning-after pill

Chinese women forced to register for morning-after pill - : The Fuzhou Food and Drug Administration, which implemented the rule Dec 21, said it was intended to protect women from the harmful misuse of the pills.

'As several emergency contraceptive pills contain mifepristone, which can be used as an abortifacient, some private clinics have used them to abort girls because a boy was the preference,' said administration head Wu Xingfa.

Emergency contraceptives containing mifepristone are regularly sold over the counter, and illegal practitioners have easy access to the pills. The real-name registration would help deter such practices, he said.

Editor: This doesn't make sense. "Emergency contraception" is supposedly used within hours of unprotected sex. At that point, women don't even know they're pregnant, and no test could tell them whether their child is a boy or girl. Or am I missing something?

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