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>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 fi

• lmm 4y ago
  Officially 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 ago
    That sounds plausible. Do we have any stats on this?
• meowtimemania 4y ago
  If 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?