Will the Chinese government force Arzigul Tursun to have an abortion?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111709.html

Stark Choice: Chinese Woman Must Abort Her Child or Lose Her Home

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

BEIJING, November 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Muslim Uyghur woman who is more than six months pregnant remains under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region awaiting a forced abortion by population control authorities who don't want her to have a third child.

Arzigul Tursun fled from her village and went into hiding to avoid the abortion but was subsequently found and taken to the Municipal Watergate Hospital in Yining.

Radio Free Asia reports that Tursun's husband, Nurmemet Tohtasin, said that "police, Party officials and the family planning committee officials, all came and interrogated us, and threatened that if we didn’t find Arzigul and bring her to the village, they would confiscate our house, farmland and all our property.”

Arzigul and Nurmemet already have two daughters at their home in the village of Bulaq. According to the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project, Arzigul fled Bulaq when officials first urged her to have an abortion, but she returned after her family received threats of asset seizure.

"We considered our two girls," Nurmemet said in a telephone interview with the Uyghur American Association. "If the house and properties were taken away, how would they live? So my wife came back home and went to the hospital."

An AP report said that physicians have delayed performing the forced abortion because of rapidly developing international interest in the case due to pressure from pro-life and human-rights groups who have expressed concern that Tursun's health could be threatened by the abortion.