Faced with an ageing population and a shrinking pool of working-age people, Beijing is rethinking rule that saw most families being able to have just one child.
Thirty-five years after enacting draconian birth control rules blamed for millions of forced abortions and the creation of a demographic “timebomb”, China could be on the verge of introducing a two-child policy.
The new regulation, under which all Chinese couples would be allowed to have two children, could be implemented “as soon as the end of the year if everything goes well”, a government source was quoted as saying by the China Business News.
ignorant tosser wrote:
“The core issue is not about one child or two children. It’s about reproductive freedom. It’s about basic human rights. In the past, the government failed to grasp the essence of the issue,”
The government grasped it just dandy. 400 million fewer Chinese people than would otherwise exist? Thank God for the Communist Party.
Providing contraceptives of your choice and universal education about birth control is provided and funded by general taxation, this is one of the slightly more acceptable ways of limiting population growth.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
