'It should be your choice, but -' He said that he was not 'ready to be a father.' He made me call Planned Parenthood less than five minutes after finding out I was pregnant.
Perhaps if China’s family planning police were abolished, human capital could be re-invested in helping families rather than forcing women to abort their children.
ISIS fighters routinely force their captives to take birth control pills or injection contraceptives before raping them, and if they are already pregnant, sometimes force them to have abortions.
On International Women’s Day, we call upon the Chinese government to call off the womb police and immediately to abandon all coercive population control.
Sending out the message that China has “dismantled” its one-child policy is detrimental to sincere efforts to stop forced abortion and gendercide in China.
Abuses present under the one-child policy are unlikely to change under the new two-child policy as the underlying structure of the program—one that attempts to control the number of births—remains in place.
The spirit of the Cultural Revolution lives on in the Family Planning Police, who brutalize people with impunity with a fervor reminiscent of the Red Guard.