China: One-Child Policy Phase-Out




(Beijing, China) After 40 years with a one-child policy, Chinese leaders have discovered a serious consequence.

More than half a billion birth control procedures, including at least 336 million abortions, have been performed in the name of the one-child policy, China's Health ministry revealed yesterday.

[Note: Sadly, simple arithmetic indicates 1,500 abortions have been performed in China every hour of every day for four decades.]

Official statistics showed that in addition to the terminations, Chinese doctors have sterilised 196 million men and women since 1971.

As a result of the family planning policy, Chinese demographics have been skewed and the working age population is decreasing. A smaller workforce is considered a serious threat to the Chinese economy. Therefore, the Chinese National Population and Family Planning Commission has been dissolved.