Every dollar spent on birth control programs in impoverished nations is a dollar that cannot be spent on maternal health, HIV prevention, sanitation, or nutrition.
If China is serious about establishing the legitimacy of its laws, it will not kill Dr. Shuxia, but it will prosecute family planning officials who sell children.
The Kenyan government has decided that since Kenyan women are so misguided as to actually want four or five children, the government will have to change their reproductive desires.
It is easy to grow emotionally complacent after more than three decades of horror stories, but these horrors will now be visited anew on the city of Huizhou.