757 Women Pregnant

In China 757 women are pregnant after losing their only child in an earthquake. More than 10,000 families lost their children in May due to the earthquake. China has a one-child policy, they have agreed to alow the families to have another chance at having a child. Over 5,000 famiies are recieving counseling, health exams, fertility treatments, and guidance after the earthquake. The earthquake left 70,000 dead and 18,000 missing which they considered dead, many of those were children who were crushed in their classrooms when the eartquake hit. They never said what the exact number of schoolchildren died but 7,000 classrooms were destroyed.



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