in december 2008, yuan qingfeng was eight months pregnant with her third child, when officials hustled her off to the hospital, where doctors aborted her baby, then performed a tubal ligation. a week later, they dropped her off to wander home alone in one of the coldest winters on record. >> "they dumped her on the road. while she was lying on the ground, the blood ran to her shoes... we don't have any relatives living near where they had left her. no one knew that they had dropped her halfway, not even her parents. it was not until she was on the verge of death that somebody came across her on the road." the experience has left yuan physically and mentally traumatized. >> "when she came back to our house, she became so dumb that she didn't even know how to eat food any more. i can't go on living like this. i will ask for a solution from the family planning office or divorce her. i can't take care of the children on my own because i have to work. no one can help me because i have no family members still alive." >> in some cases, relatives of offending parents were the ones who paid the