Forced abortion

==North Korean refugees repatriated from China==
{{main|Abortion in North Korea}}
Forced abortions and [[infanticide]] are used as a form of punishment in [[Prisons in North Korea|prison camp]]s. The North Korean regime banned pregnancy in its camps in the 1980s.<ref name="NYT61002" /> [[China]] returns all illegal immigrants from [[North Korea]] which usually imprisons them in a short-term facility. Many [[North Korean defectors]] assert that forced abortions and infanticide are common in these prisons.<ref name=NYT61002>{{cite news|title=N. Koreans Talk of Baby Killings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/world/n-koreans-talk-of-baby-killings.html|access-date=August 3, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 10, 2002|author=James Brooke}}</ref><ref name=HG2>{{cite book|title=The Hidden Gulag Second Edition The Lives and Voices of "Those Who are Sent to the Mountains"|year=2012|publisher=Committee for Human Rights in North Korea|isbn=978-0615623672|pages=111–155|url=http://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/HRNK_HiddenGulag2_Web_5-18.pdf|author=David Hawk|edition=Second|access-date=September 21, 2012}}</ref><ref name="United Nations Human Rights Council 2014" /> The majority of the prisoners held in the Chinese detention centers are women. Repatriated North Koreans are subject to forced abortions regardless of perceived crimes. North Korean police's efforts are to prevent North Korean women from having ethnically mixed children with [[Han Chinese]] men. Medical care was not provided to North Korean women who underwent forced abortions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hawk|first=David|title=The Hidden Gulag, Second Edition, The Lives and Voices of "Those Who are Sent to the Mountains"|publisher=The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea|year=2012|isbn=978-0615623672|location=Washington, DC|pages=99–123}}</ref>