When Fan Jianhua had her third daughter last April, she was afraid that she would be fined for violating China’s birth limits.Ms. Fan was already heavily in debt paying for treatment for her 6-year-old, who has leukemia. To her relief, when she registered her new baby with the police, she didn’t have to pay the $7,500 fine.“I was really happy and could finally relax,” said Ms. Fan, 34, a stay-at-home mother in the central city of Danjiangkou, in Hubei Province.Slowly, in fits and starts, China’s ruling Communist Party is loosening its long-held restrictions over childbirth and …
