Famous Chinese Filmmaker Investigated for Breaking One-Child Policy
Family planning agents are investigating China’s most famous film director for reportedly having 7 children with 4 women. If guilty of breaking China’s laws, Zhang Yimou could face $27 million in fines. Zhang designed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. His films, like Raise the Red Lantern, have won international acclaim. Reports of his [...]
Every Dollar Spent on Condoms Means Less Dollars in Taxes
An article from Keith Riler at First Things fleshes out the long term effects of population control efforts among the poor in America. Riler suggests that the FED and States should gladly spend $11,000 worth of Medicare on births among poor Americans, rather then spend for family planning. Riler sees it as an investment. The argument is [...]
Human Rights Alert: Forced abortion and sterilization in China.
Abortion and sterilization are quite different in China than in the US. In the US pro-life and pro-choice advocates debate whether abortion should remain a legal choice. As a result 55 million abortions have taken place in the US. In China fertility is controlled by the state. When women violate the one-child policy or related policies (such [...]
China’s worker shortage
When I asked a group of security studies experts to contribute to a book on population decline–Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics–they took on the challenge with gusto despite misgivings about wading out of their areas of expertise. In the future, I assured them, it will influence everybody’s area of expertise. One of [...]
Group Warns – Reports of End of Forced Abortions in China – “Naive”
China Aid, an organization engaged in ending human rights abuses in China, is calling reports that China has banned forced abortions and sterilizations - “naive rumors.” All Girls Allowed (AGA), an organization committed to ending female genocide in China reported earlier in the month that the Chinese government had issued a document to state-run Family Planning offices [...]
China Human Rights Dissident Asks Apple to Help End One-Child Policy
Bloomberg is reporting that human rights dissident Chen Guangcheng, is urging Apple to use its influence to help prevent ongoing human rights abuses occurring in China since they have a large manufacturing stake employing thousands of Chinese workers to assemble Apple products. Chen Guangcheng is known for exposing coerced abortions and sterilizations resulting from China’s one-child [...]
Eliminating People to Help People?
Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and [...]
Post-Abortive Women File Complaint Against China’s One Child Policy
In the last several years, women who regret their abortions have been active at the UN telling delegates and bureaucrats how abortion hurt them. Now they are spearheading a coalition that submitted a formal complaint to the UN Commission on the Status of Women against China over its One Child Policy. They hope this “complaint [...]
Family Planning Officials Receive Incentives to Enforce One-Child Policy
In an article in the South China Morning Post, Dr. Jackie Sheehan, associate professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, notes that one-child policy enforcement abuses will persist as long as incentives continue to be offered by the state. Fees paid by couples to have a second child are used [...]