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family planning
This is What China Looks Like Without the One Child Policy—About the Same
Rudong County won a top award in 1986 for hitting the regime’s population control target. Today, the county is facing the consequences.
China’s New Two-Child Policy: Throwing a Bone to the Public as the Economy Declines
The decision to allow all Chinese families two children is more about maintaining social harmony than an attempt to handle the aging crisis.
Why India’s Family Planning Program Is Not Good for Poor Women
Sixteen women died in central India last month due to botched sterilizations. The incident has raised serious questions about country’s family control program.
Kidnapping and Extortion in China Come Courtesy of the Family Planning Office
A mother and her infant boy were illegally detained in a hotel by a local Family Planning Office in eastern China recently, after she was unable to pay the exorbitant fee for having an illegal baby.
Woman Forced to Abort Fetus at Seven Months
A 25-year-old unmarried woman was seven months pregnant when staff members from the local government family planning office forcibly took her to a clinic to give her an abortion.
