BEIJING — A few months after Lu Qiumei gave birth to her daughter in 2012, local officials visited her home and told her that she was required to be fitted with an intrauterine device.
For more than three decades, this was national policy in China. The IUD was the government's most important tool for limiting couples to one child, and almost all new mothers were required to get one.
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Now, a year after abandoning the “one-child” policy, the government is hoping to make it up to Ms. Lu and millions of women like her — by removing their IUDs, free of charge. But the offer, made without even a hint of an apology, has provoked incredulous outrage.
