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It's ironic you even mention abortion, given that abortions were forced to maintain the one child policy until 2015, and then 3 child policy until 2021. Is not
by meowtimemania 4y ago
It's ironic you even mention abortion, given that abortions were forced to maintain the one child policy until 2015, and then 3 child policy until 2021. Is not the government's absolute power to control family size the most blaring example of authoritarianism?
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoIn the West, the abortion thing is a (ideally immutable) moral line in the sand. In China, it's just an instrument the state turns on and off as needed for population control. The difference in approaches is so interesting.
- trasz 4y ago>given that abortions were forced to maintain the one child policy until [citation needed]. Various accounts I've seen claimed it was more like a financial fine; forced abortions sound like Zenz-type fabrication.
- lmm 4y agoOfficially there was only the massive financial incentive. However local officials also had financial incentives to keep birth rates low in their areas, and many of them resorted to more direct coercion, which is widely thought to have been a not entirely unintended consequence.
- trasz 4y agoThat sounds plausible. Do we have any stats on this?
- meowtimemania 4y agoIf you are given a choice between financial fine or abortion, and there's nothing you realistically can do to afford the fine, wouldn't you say the abortion is forced?