A Boston-based federal appeals court joined several other circuits in ruling that the husbands of Chinese women forced to undergo abortions aren't automatically eligible for asylum. While federal law paves the way for asylum for victims of China's population-control policies, the courts have read the statute to include only those who undergo the procedure. (The law speaks of "a person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy.") Xian Tong Dong, a Chinese national, came to the U.S. in 2006, after his wife's forced abortion. He had hoped to send for her and his son after gaining permission to stay

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