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40 Stan. L. Rev. 1027 (1987-1988)
The Law of Abortion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China: Women's Rights in Two Socialist Countries

handle is hein.journals/stflr40 and id is 1051 raw text is: The Law of Abortion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China: Women's Rights in Two Socialist Countries Mark Savage* One undertakes a study of the law of abortion with a sense of irony. Abortion is very personal to the woman considering it. Laws on abor- tion, however, and studying the laws of abortion, separate the act and the choice from their very bases in each woman's experience. With this abstraction, each abortion becomes either legal or illegal, depending upon the law of the country where the woman lives, and becomes an instrument of a state's demographic policies, or its health policies, or its policies on crime, or its policies on women's rights. A note on the law of abortion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) and the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.) cannot completely resolve this disparity between personal reality and abstract law and policy. It must analyze the laws on abortion, with legal criteria, even while under- taking to determine how those laws affect women personally.' * Third-year student, Stanford Law School. While researching and writing this note, I persistently thought of over 2,000,000,000 wo- men who never determined the laws on abortion that govern them. This note is dedicated to them. I thank Frances Foster-Simons for making the transliterations consistent and for her com- ments on the Soviet and Chinese jurisprudences of rights. I. The sources and statistical data cited below require prefatory comment. Firstly, the sources reviewed were the English translations, not the originals in Russian or Chinese. This note includes the citation of the original source so that the reader may know its nature and weight, which often are not evident from the citation to the translation. The following cita- tion form is adopted below: The original source is cited first as the primary authority; because the citation to the original source often could only be determined from information in the translation, sometimes it is not complete. Titles in Russian or Chinese, if available, are trans- lated within brackets in roman typeface; if the title in translation alone is known, it is printed in roman typeface, italics, or large and small capitals, as appropriate, but is enclosed in brack- ets. Titles of periodicals and newspapers are only translated when first cited. The source of the translation is cited second. When subsequent citations refer to a citation supra, in form they cite the original source (for example, the author's last name rather than the new title given to the translation). If the subsequent citation refers to specific pages within the source, those pages are the pages of the translation. Secondly, many of the research materials cited herein are not legal sources. Instead, 1027

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