"I didn't get to see him. I would be even more upset if I had seen him.
"Baby, I'm sorry. We were not meant to be. You rest in peace in heaven.
We will pray for you. We hope your next life is better."
Her heartbreak is the most brutal consequence of China's one-child policy.
The law is designed to keep the country's population in check. It prevents
couples from having more than one child with a few exceptions in some rural
provinces.
The policy is supposed to be enforced through financial penalties and not
forced abortions. But in some provinces, over-zealous local officials, keen to
keep within their birth quotas, break the law and terminate pregnancies by
force.
"They don't have any humanity. They are not humans." Liu Xinwen
said.
"They must have children and parents too. But they don't have any
conscience. This is how China is."
Mr Zhou told how the officials held him down on the sofa while others
took his wife away. In all, there were 16 male officials and four females.
We then sit down to look at photos he had taken in the hospital room. They
are almost indescribably graphic.
One photograph shows Liu Xinwen lying on the bed. Beside her, on the floor,
is a bucket. Inside is her aborted child.
Several other images show the foetus. It is fully formed.
"His nose, ears, mouth are all there." Mr Zhou said.
"It is a child that would have lived if not for the forced abortion.
It's because of their cruelty. Look, his hand is very obvious."
Mr Zhou broke down as he recalled the moment he arrived in the hospital,
just minutes after the injection had been administered.
"My wife was lying in bed. I asked her: 'Have you been injected?' She
said 'yes'. I asked if the baby was still moving. She said 'not much'.
"After that, I didn't want my wife to see my crying. I went outside. I
cried, but only for a while because I needed to return to comfort her. She was
very sad. She cried, day and night.
"Every time I heard babies' voices from other wards, I could hardly
control myself. I had to go out. I have lost my child. I am speechless, words
can't describe my feelings."
He claimed that his wife was forced to sign papers which said she had agreed
to the abortion.
When she initially refused, he said they told her that if she did not sign
the papers, they would arrest her husband and she would have nothing. We have
not been able to independently verify this.
The couple already have one son. Zhou Junfeng is 10. As we talk to his
parents, he runs around the house playing. He is oblivious to the grief around
him.
After Zhou Junfeng was born his mother underwent a state-proscribed
procedure to insert a contraceptive coil into her body.
She says that this "forced sterilisation" must have failed,
allowing her to fall pregnant for a second time.
The couple had the option to tell the authorities about the pregnancy the
moment they discovered it, four months after conception.
They decided not to come clean because they were concerned that an abortion
may be forced on them.
Instead, they said they planned to tell the authorities after the birth and
then offer to pay the fine. This is common in parts of China and is sometimes
acceptable.
Mr Zhou offered to take us to the hospital to see the room where the
abortion happened.
Inside the hospital, we saw the room which is part of a fully functioning
maternity ward; it is not a backstreet abortion clinic.
We found just two members of staff. One refused to comment. The other, a
young nurse, was reluctant and a little startled to find a foreign TV crew in
her hospital.
"I don't know if it's forced or not. And I don't know the reason for
it," she said.
"This is a maternity ward; there are many reasons for abortions. I
don't know the specific reason for this case and it's not my place to
care."
Sky News has approached the Shandong Health and Family Planning Commission,
the central government Family Planning Commission in Beijing and the Chinese
Embassy in London for a response to this case.
At midday British time, the embassy told Sky News they were looking into the
case and would provide a more detailed response later.