the shaanxi provincial population and family planning commission confirmed the forced
china 's shaanxi province for forcing feng jianmei to abort her pregnancy because she failed to pay a hefty fine for exceeding china 's strict " one - child " population control policy .
harmed image of family planning ' unnamed local officials in zhenping county - where the incident took place - denied forcing ms feng to have the abortion , local media reports say .
media reports from china says ms feng has been traumatised by what has happened .
an official at the national family planning commission who declined to be named said earlier that the commission viewed the matter as " serious and image caption china 's birth control policy has meant women being coerced into abortions , which beijing denies . "
the group says it spoke to ms feng was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child , us - based activists said .
the bbc 's jon sudworth in shanghai says such allegations are nothing new in china , but what has made this one different is a widely circulated photo of the woman lying next to the baby 's corpse .
chinese web users have reacted in anger to the abortion , with one comparing it to acts perpetrated by " japanese devils and nazis " , after photos online showed feng lying on a hospital bed next to the blood - smeared body of her baby .
feng jiamei , from shaanxi province , was made to undergo the procedure in the seventh month of pregnancy , local officials said chai ling of the us - based activist group all girls allowed .