But a reading of these blogs shows that the preferred solution could be the world - wide application of China's
forced abortion policy.
Not exact matches
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child
policy,» replete with
forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.
CNN: Catholics clergymen come out swinging against HHS regulation Catholics around the country got an earful on Sunday from the pulpit over a new health insurance
policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that
forces employers to cover contraception and
abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious beliefs.
Washington (CNN)- Catholics around the country got an earful on Sunday from the pulpit over a new health insurance
policy by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that
forces employers to cover contraception and
abortion as part of preventative care regardless of religious beliefs.
Yet they seem quite happy to profit off of stuff made in China, a country that has for years had a
policy of
forced abortions...
Forced abortions, sterilizations and mandatory birth control measures became commonplace, but the one - child
policy also led to a massive gender gap.
Of course she says nothing about her husband's
policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and
forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.
Meanwhile, China reaches deep into the family lives of its citizens: Its «family planning»
policies, including
forced abortions, have brought about the world's highest number of deaths of unborn children.
The U.S. State Department said that the
policy has resulted in
forced abortions in some cases.
«Whether it's Chinese government
policy in the past, for one child and
forced abortions and sterilization, or the
policies of the communist regime in Romania, with
forced childbearing, we can not, we must not, ever let governments and politicians make those decisions,» Clinton said to a few hundred supporters and a phalanx of cameras, all crammed into a Hilton ballroom in Midtown Manhattan.
Fueled by stories of
forced sterilizations, infanticide, child abandonment, and high rates of
abortion (especially when the fetus is female), critics also say the
policy has unfairly favored boys.
The excesses of the one - child
policy, such as
forced sterilizations and
abortions, would eventually meet with global opprobrium.
While China's
policy of
forced abortions and sterilizations (for poor urban families) may have some benefits it is, ultimately, a disgusting and dangerous
policy and such acts are and should be hard to defend.
The
policy (which is one of population control, not birth control) has had dreadful costs, including widespread female infanticide, a lopsided sex ratio and horrors such as mass sterilisation and
forced abortions.