Having it both ways (Chinese abortion policy & Pro-choice/life considerations)

the issue taken with this action is that a society-wide devaluing of the roles and lives of women has resulted in a preference for sons. this is because only sons are viewed as bringing honor and being able to provide for their parents. in the light of the population reduction programs that have been implemented since the 60s (i think. i wrote a paper on this but god help me i'm bad with dates.) such as the one child policy in which parents are financially punished for having more than two children. (there is no stated policy for mandatory abortions, and the national government has spoken out against them on numerous occasions, but some local authorities have utilized such.) likewise, parents are rewarded for having only one child. parents with two children receive no aid or censure. the current policy is, however, two children, one son in which families with a daughter can try for a son. this policy is intended to reduce the gender disparity which is rapidly growing and some 8 million men will be without potential wives in about 20 years.the protest in this case is against that devaluing of women which results in the specific abortion of female fetuses in preference for a son.

in my research, there are no such policies. families were previously only permitted one child (see my explanation in the above post). how they decided to limit their births is up to them. however, any higher parity children are not killed, simply taxed. there have been local abuses, but there is no national policy resembling this draconian suggestion.

once again you're obfuscating reality just to bad-mouth people who disagree with you.the issue here is that the purpose of abortion in this country is to have the right to control the output of one's own uterus irrespective of the wishes or opinions of anyone else. the purpose of abortion in china has been to get rid of a "useless" daughter in order to be able to have a son. this is because men are the only valued members of society, free to their choice in employment having the ability to provide for their parents. women are required to serve specific limited roles and are not viewed as bringing "honor" to their families. when a woman marries, she becomes a part of her husband's family, leaving her parents with no children. in the light of the programs implemented to reduce the population growth in china, this leaves parents with no desire to raise a daughter only to comepletely lose their investment in her.the idea is that if women had equal rights and opportunities in the country, then women would be selected for just as often. might i mention... do you really want 8 million frustrated chinese men? do you know the kind of social issues that could result from gender disparity? increases in sexual slavery kidnappings, increases in disease with unregulated prostitution, increase in violent crime from the gangs necessary to run an underground sex industry, fraud, money laundering, extortion... do i need to go on? not to mention a potential army of unattached 8 million chinese men who could easily be drafted and sent out to war with who increases their level of frustration.it is not wrong to seek to ensure that you have a child who will be able to care for you in your old age. it is wrong to perpetuate ideas that women have no value.

irony? what the fuck are you talking about.
really. do you think before you hit that submit reply button, or do you just kind paste in some random crap and go with it?

i'm sure there's a huge number of unregistered women, but as a student researcher with no visa (and probably no likelihood of getting one since my own government is bound to put me away for being dangerous everntually and china would never let me in.) i can't build an interview database. but there's enough misunderstanding with the one-child policy to go around as it is.

but if i pass a law in south carolina to emotionally abuse you and force you to view an ultrasound of your BABY, i can. cause that's ethical.

sarcasm mostly.i know <3

i am aware of the story. and i believe it. but there are no policies for this. these are abuses by local officials which can and should be stopped. but probably won't be. and they ought to be. this is among the steps "we" have demanded china take to join the "rest of the world" in respecting human rights. i am aware.the problem is that these policies are imposed when simply educating the population and empowering the position of women would do the job. india has a similar problem and a different solution... none. however, in kerala, they instituted serious education reforms and the population growth stalled on it's own. educated women who don't have to gain the approval of their families by making babies won't make babies. it is a complex problem, but it has a very simple solution which answers the question in the OP. the problem here isn't really the position and policies of the government, those are just a poorly aimed solution. the problem is the position of women and the role they have been forced into. the abuse of female abortions isn't an offense against those fetuses, it's an offense against the women who have been abused into thinking that they are not useful members of society and that to have a daughter (another woman) would make them even less valuable. it is merely a symptom of the all around devaluing of women in that culture.these are the sources for my paper.Agence France Presse. 2006. “China to pay farmers more for having fewer children.” October 16.BBC Monitoring International Reports. 2006. “China implements policies to counter gender imbalance.” September 22.BBC Monitoring International Reports. “China's population to peak soon - family planning official.” October 9.Bongaarts, John. 1984. “Implications of Future Fertility Trends for Contraceptive Practice.” Population and Development Review 10-2 (June): 341-52.Bongaarts, John. 1994. “Population Policy Options in the Developing World.” Science, New Series 263-5148 (February 11): 771-6.Caldwell, John C, James F Phillips, and Barakat-e-Khuda. 2002. “The Future of Family Planning Programs.” Studies in Family Planning 33-1 (March): 1-10.China Daily. 2006. “Population to peak at 1.5B in 2030s.” June 23.China Daily. 2006. “One-child policy 'will not change'.” September 30.David, Henry P. 1982. “Incentives, Reproductive Behavior, and Integrated Community Development in Asia.” Studies in Family Planning 13-5 (May): 159-173.Freedman, Lynn P and Stephen L Isaacs. 1993. “Human Rights and Reproductive Choice.” Studies in Family Planning 24-1 (January-February) 18-30.Gulhati, Kaval. 1977. “Conpulsory Sterilization: The Change in India's Population Policy.” Science, New Series 195-4284 (March 25) 1300-5.Hindustan Times. 2006. “PM frowns on tough population checks.” August 23.Indo-Asian News Service. 2006. “No easing of restrictions in Beijing's population control policy.” September 23.Irish Times. 2006. “China's hard line on family planning.” May 9.Jowett, A J. 1984. “The Growth of China's Population, 1949-1982 (With Special Reference to the Demographic Disaster of 1960-1961).” The Geographic Journal 150-2 (July): 155-170.Laidlaw, Karen A and Edward G Stockwell. 1980. “Fertility Control Programs in Asia: Another Look at the Data.” Asian Survey 20-8 (August): 803-11.Merrick, Thomas W. 2002. “Population and Poverty: New Views on an Old Controversy.” International Family Planning perspectives 28-1 (March): 41-6.Monro, Alexander. 2006. “Hidden legacy of China's family plan.” New Scientist, July 8.Murayama, Hiroshi. 2006. “Population explosion gives way to worker shortages linked to one-child policy.” The Nikkei Weekly, September 4.Narayanan, Vasudha. 1997. “'One Tree is Equal to Ten Sons': Hindu Responses to the Problems of Ecology, Population, and Consumption.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65-2 (Summer): 291-332.Norton, James H K. 2005. 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no. one or several ant eaters had a long snout and a long tongue and that helped him eat more easily, thus allowing him to survive long enough to fuck a lot and pass on his long snoutedness. again, it's not necessity, really, so much as only the ones who had long penises could mate and they passed on those genes for long penises. if men evolved alone, you might have a point, except not. males are not a species. it is more likely that women, with the capacity to participate in prenatal nurture, would be able to randomly develop asexual reproduction. but it would probably happen by mistake (random fusing of two ova) rather than by any process controlled by genetics. i really couldn't describe for you what it might take for women to start reproducing asexually. btw, of all the asexual species which still demonstrate sexual differentiation (ie being recently asexualizaed) i've only heard of females. like those crazy lesbian lizards who still require copulatory stimulation to initiate a pregnancy. you clearly demonstrate that you don't speak for any man but yourself. don't claim to speak for half of the world population if you don't. am i a dyke because i've been with one other woman in spite of my general preference for and impending marriage to a man? or is that just one more hot thing for you to jerk to? that's a trick question, since i don't consider myself as having a sexual orientation, but you get the picture. i wonder what you would do in prison if presented with the option of seeking protection from another man through favors or be beaten or raped by everyone else daily.there was a pamphlet talked about on this american life by stephen donaldson, an activist with the stop prison rape campaign.
This American Life you should listen to it. or read it on the stop prison rape website.
Stephen Donaldson (activist) - Wikipedia
there's the wiki article on the author.