By Wilson
The article details on recent events surrounding China’s abandonment of its “One-Child” policy that have left millions of women upset. Up until 2015 China held a fairly stringent policy of restricting families to a single biological child, using contraceptives such as IUDs to enforce the regulation (even sterilizing women who went on to had second children). Between 1980 and 2014 around 324 million Chinese women were fitted with IUDs, many coerced into the decision by the threat of their children being denied public education, health care and other social services.
The entire situation makes it clear how much more authoritarian the Chinese government is than that of the United States, United Kingdom and other western regimes. The “One-Child” policy represents a clear violation of basic human rights, including body autonomy. This fact further illustrates that although China is far from being a traditional democracy and is quite procedural, to be frank. Personally, I believe that the methods China used to carry out its “One-Child” policy were brutal and inconsiderate of human rights, although I do recognize the need they saw to slow the growth of their population.
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