Forced abortion

==Nazi Germany==
{{further|Abortion in Germany#Nazi era|Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers|Nazi racial theories}}
During [[World War II]], abortion policy in [[Nazi Germany]] varied depending on the people, group, and territory the policy was directed at, as German women were forbidden to have an abortion.<ref name=":15">{{Cite journal |last1=David |first1=Henry P. |last2=Fleischhacker |first2=Jochen |last3=Hohn |first3=Charlotte |date=March 1988 |title=Abortion and Eugenics in Nazi Germany |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1972501 |journal=Population and Development Review |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=81–112 |doi=10.2307/1972501 |jstor=1972501 |pmid=11655915 |issn=0098-7921}}</ref> The commonality between policies was its purpose in promoting the birth rate and population of the putative "Aryan race" and minimizing the population of those such as [[Jews|Jewish]], [[Poland|Polish]], and [[Romani people|Roma]] women.<ref name=":15"/> Additionally, those deemed an overall burden on German society such as the disabled or mentally ill were also subjected to forced abortion with sterilization to follow, and were among the only Germans who were legally subjected to receiving an abortion.<ref name=":15"/> These accounts have been categorized as a part of Nazi Germany's "systematic program of genocide, aimed at the destruction of foreign nations and ethnic groups".<ref>{{cite book |title=Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 (Volume 4) |date=1947 |pages=609–610 |url=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.law/llmlp.2011525364_NT_war-criminals_Vol-IV}}</ref>

After the war ended, the practices of forced abortion towards condemned groups among Nazi society was determined to be a war crime upon assessment during the [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg Trials]].<ref name=":15"/> Those guilty of encouraging or enforcing abortion during the Holocaust were sentenced to a minimum of 25 years imprisonment due to their practice being considered a "inhumane act of extermination".<ref name=":15" />