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China punishes officials over late-term abortion case

A Chinese official has been sacked and others punished over the case of a woman forced to have a late-term abortion, state-run media report.

An investigation showed that officials "used crude means" to persuade Feng Jianmei to agree to the abortion, Xinhua news agency reports.

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