CHINESE PROVINCE CRACKS DOWN ON HAVING A SECOND CHILD

BEIJING, People’s Republic of China, July 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Guandong province is blaming Bush administration criticism of the country’s one-child policy for its latest crackdown on human life and liberty—raising the fine for having a second child to eight times an offending couple’s annual income.  Media in the West are echoing Beijing propaganda, which claims the regulations “are an expression of grave concern over a severe excess of newborn males.” (Male births now outstrip females by a ratio of 116 to 100, whereas 106 to 100 is the international norm.) But keen observers know full well that the cause of this dire imbalance is Beijing’s own child-limiting policy, which has led to unprecedented abortion of unborn girls.  Reports claim that rising incomes allow more couples to have “unauthorized pregnancies,” which can then be legitimized by paying a registration fine along with the necessary bribes. But many Chinese have always aspired to larger families than have been officially allowed since Communist rule was imposed in 1949. Today, the nominally-Communist autocracy actually boasts that 330 million births have been “prevented” since 1980.  To read coverage in the National Post see:  https://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=5097151D-68FA-45EE-8B3F-39BAEB0EF235   For previous LifeSite coverage of self-destructive Beijing policies see:  CHINA’S FEMALE SHORTAGE DUE TO ABORTION OF GIRLS https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/may/02051307.html