The three-child policy, whereby a couple can have three children, is a familyplanning policy in the People's Republic of China that exists as a formality but is effectively abolished. China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit which has failed to lead to a sustained upsurge in births. Restrictions in familyplanninglaws were eased for the first time in 2015, allowing families to have up to two children as officials acknowledged the looming consequences of the plummeting birthrate. But that change did little to curb the country's declining birthrate. Dozens of women in southwest China have recently been forced into abortions, some late in their pregnancies. It's not the first time a local government has been accused of such an action, but it'ssurprising because China has relaxed its law that limits each family to one child. Women who gave birth in breach of China’sfamilyplanning scheme constitute a particular social group (PSG). Social maintenance fees are no longer part of the familyplanning policy. The Bloomberg article states that “China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have[.]” Many of the abortions in China are performed on unmarried women. China will not release how many of its 23 million abortions a year are forced. China's National Population and FamilyPlanning Commission had no immediate comment on the report on Tuesday. Known to many as the one-child policy, China's actual rules are more complicated. The government limits most urban couples to one child, and allows two children for rural...