Forced Abortions in Rural China

"Keep the birth rate low to enhance the quality of the population," advocates a Billboard in rural China.
A report by NPR describes women being forced to have abortions by local government officials (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9766870#email). Although this is not necessarily a widespread and common practice, it demonstrates the frustrating bureaucratic situation in China. Top officials in Beijing constantly create new laws to "better" the population.
Keeping the birth rate low does in many ways have benefits to society (although it will soon result in a disastrous situation where the older generation can't be supported by their single child and the government's absent social security program can’t provide for them either), however these officials do not offer guidance to local officials on how to implement the laws. Instead, they only demand statistical data demonstrating a decrease in the birth rate. When such a reduction does not naturally occur, local officials become exasperated and turn to desperate measures to produce such data, like forced abortions. The problem here lies not with ethics, but with bureaucracy and the only solution is a drastic overhaul of the Chinese bureaucratic system.