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Originally posted by schUsseln
re: forced births - I honestly don't think that will EVER be a problem for China, given its cultural sensibilities. Which are the root of overpopulation there anyhow.
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For this I was referring to Europe. I agree that china will never have a depopulation problem, but Europe, on the other hand, will. Their population has been decreasing for the past 2-3 years. Also, Japan will run into this problem too. The prof. from stanford said that if Japan keeps going at the rate it is now, there will only be 500 people left in the year 3000...I realize that probably won't happen and sounds dumb, but it shows how serious the problem can get.
Also, lurkette, at the hospital the prof. witnessed the late abortion, they said they do about 400 of them a year, and that was just the one hospital. Most of the time, if a women gets "illegaly" pregnant and doesn't want the abortion, she'll try to hide, but then ends up getting dragged to a hospital by authorities (its tough to hide with a huge gut).
Another thing though, is that china is not doing this by themselves. The United Nations is the ones funding the whole thing and I wouldn't doubt that they're telling them what to do. The United Nations also exagerates china's population and lies to us saying that there are no forced abortions.
I would agree with everyone else saying not to push our morals on them, except that the vast majority of china has the same morals. You have to remember that the people are being forced into these things. I mean, if the people wanted to do it, I'd leave them alone. It's kinda like if the Jews wanted to be killed, there wouldn't have been a war.
I don't know, maybe I'm just being dumb, but I think that the United Nations can find a better way of dealing with it.