So, you want to give the state more power over your health and body, do you?
"The effects of China's one-child policy have rippled through society.
Zhong Rufang, a gynecologist in Yunnan Province, is both a physician
and local implementer of the policy. Doctors like her often must perform
abortions on mothers who are seven or even eight months pregnant with
another child and caught by the police. It's an especially wrenching
task for Zhong, who has been unable to have a child herself." The Faces Of China, From Ai Weiwei to Liu Tianyou | Fast Company
via http://americandigest.org/
2 comments:
Bob, I couldn't bring myself to chase the link to the article. I really could not.
We've been in the anti-baby-killing deal for more years than I can remember. My wife has worked at three Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and shed too many tears to count.
But, this post about the Chinese policy brought to mind something that I haven't thought about in many years.
I remember hearing someone (can't remember WHO, because the old memory isn't what it used to be) on a radio program out of Denver talking about the long term damage that will be done to China as a whole, due to their policies.
(Seriously, this had to be probably nearly 20 years ago, because that's when we lived in Colorado).
The man was talking about how Chinese couples were aborting female babies, so that they could have a Son to pass on the family name, etc. His theory was that within a couple of generations, the population make-up of China would be overwhelmingly male...and that because men want women, China would be forced to invade, and take over other nations...just to satisfy the need of the overwhelmingly male Chinese population to have wives/bear children/etc.
I know this sounds like a goofy comment. But, the guy really made sense.
Okay...you can delete this comment if you want to, because it sounds goofy. But, the guy was giving an astute treatise on HOW the policy of China was going to impact global security, and could likely disrupt everybody's apple cart.
I mean...guys really like chicks...and if there's not enough to go around, you gotta cruise somebody else's turf...
Just sayin'...
Too sad for words.
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