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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 374
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 02:09 am: | 
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Study Confirms China Forced Abortion Policy Created Gender Imbalance
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 18, 2006
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A new study has confirmed what observers of China's family planning policies have suspected for years. By forcing women to have abortions, sterilizing them and targeting them and their families for persecution has caused a severe gender imbalance that's resulted in sexually exploiting women, higher crimes and other social concerns.
Conducted by Qu Jian Ding of the Institute of Population Studies at Zhejiang University and Therese Hesketh of London's Institute of Child Health, the study finds men in the Asian nation overwhelmingly outnumber women.
The pair relied on data from 40,000 women and found that the birth rate dropped from 2.9 children before China enacted its one-child family planning policy in 1979.
The study found women above the age of 35 have 1.94 children and women under the age of 35 have 1.73 children. Both rates are below replacement level for a nation to sustain its population.
According to a Reuters report, the pair's study found that the male-female gender imbalance moved from 1.11 in 1980-89 to 1.23 in 1996-2001.
The findings also confirm that sex-selection abortions and infanticides have been used to generate boy babies since Chinese culture, especially in rural areas, favors boys over girls.
"These findings have clear implications for decisions about future population policy," the authors wrote in the study, published in the most recent edition of the British Medical Journal.
"A relaxation of the policy could be considered in the near future," the researcher wrote, according to Reuters. "It is unlikely that a baby boom would result, and such a change in policy might help to correct the abnormal sex ratio."
The researchers also found that a majority of women wish they could have more than the one child the Chinese government allows.
About 35 percent of women studied said they want only one child, but 57 percent said they would want two and just under six percent wanted more than two children.
Chinese officials failed in June to approve a ban on sex-selection abortions, but the nation is still planning to continue its crackdown on using ultrasound machines to reveal the sex of an unborn baby for non-medical purposes.
In May, the Chinese government closed more than 200 clinics in the province of Hebei that were telling women the sex of their unborn children so they could have abortions of girl babies. The Shanghai Daily said there were 134 boys born for every 100 girls in Hebei.
Officials found 848 cases of sex-selection abortions occurring as a result of the clinics telling of the baby's gender.
The newspaper reported that 745 hospitals and clinics were involved in the investigation and, in addition to those closed, another 374 were fined. The government opened legal cases against three medical workers involved in arranging illegal abortions.
China now has 119 boys for ever 100 girls, a gender imbalance that is far from the normal 103-100 ratio seen in industrialized nations across the globe. The imbalance has given rise to a culture of massive sex-trafficking and the kidnapping of teenagers and young adults to be forced into marriage.
The country has also become a nation of bachelors as Chinese men have problems finding potential wives and starting families. This has contributed to a rise in crime, prostitution, and other problems.
Ironically, population control officials sent portable ultrasound machines to hundreds of cities across the nation in the early 1980s to make sure women who were required to wear a birth control device kept it in. The machines were later used to determine the sex of a baby for an abortion.
Chinese couples determined to have a son easily get around the new laws as a black market has sprung up of people with ultrasound machines in the trunks of cars or house closets are willing to divulge the sex of an unborn baby for a price.
Some Chinese are selling their girl babies to those seeking girls for their sons. Chinese officials have uncovered massive baby-selling schemes including finding newborns in bags in the back of trucks and on buses on their way to be sold.
The poor parents of unwanted newborn girls sell their babies for a little as $8.
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Abm
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Post Number: 6133
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 02:13 am: |
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Tonya,
I guess if China was going to make at a point to control whether and how people reproduce, it should have taken the extra step of rationalizing and equalizing the rate/ratio of male and female births. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2591
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 10:16 am: |
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Who cares in a nation of over a billion people?
Only an American tofu eating candyass would get all up in arms about this. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 3062
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 01:28 pm: |
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That's funny, Chris, because I care about almost NOTHING that you ever post.
You rant on and on about some system that you obviously dream to be part of---only you can never be.
I guess it makes you feel like a man. To keep tabs on the white man's power and dealings. What the government should be if weren't so corrupt.
The problem is that you're way too comfortable and spoiled here. They require nothing of you, but I guess that's what your African forefathers wanted when they sold you into slavery.
I care that the whole world values boy children and not girl children, and that this prejudice is traditional and international.
How could a mother not care?
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Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1385
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 01:32 pm: |
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Kola:
"I care that the whole world values boy children and not girl children, and that this prejudice is traditional and international........How could a mother not care?"
Moonsigns:
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Abm
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Post Number: 6141
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006 - 06:21 pm: |
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The world is so BIG. Human beings really only occupy an infinitesimal FRACTION of its surface. And yet is seems there's not enuff space, room, food and shelter for everyone.
I suppose the paradox of government is we'll kill each other without it. And we'll kill each other with it. |
Femrenoir
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Post Number: 101
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:53 am: |
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This is planned parenthood gone horribly wrong.
The ideal living situation in their culture is obviously to have a successful son who will take care of you financially in your old age. His wife to be your servant. They'll be ripe for a revolution in 10 years or so when the old farts start dying mysteriously (from poisoning?) and they're son's are afraid to say anything for fear of losing their poontang. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1200
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:21 pm: |
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Or, they'll have to marry some American chick because they don't have women in their own country....and you KNOW they ain't being anyone's servant. |
Abm
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Post Number: 6149
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 12:43 pm: |
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China's gots LOTS of money. And is getting richer by the day.
I could EASILY see a scenario where by China uses it new/growing wealth to encourage MILLIONS of non-Chinese women to immigrate from other (perhaps from poorer, Asian boardering) countries to make up for it shortages of women.
'Course, their next problem would be they have more of certain type people entering the nation than they probably want. But, hey, you've gotta do some cost-benefit analysis. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1205
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 01:12 pm: |
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The deal with China is (since the Opium Wars and the overthrow of the Manchurian Emperor) they don't trust ANY foreigners and are hardly likely to bring in women from Western countries to teach a whole new generation to rebel against the Chinese government. |
Abm
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Post Number: 6152
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 02:45 pm: |
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Renata,
China is (arguably) the world's oldest enduring nation. You don’t survive for nearly 6,000 years without knowing a thing or 2 about surviving.
A generation or 2 ago, China was mostly against capitalism. Now its economic prowess rivals that of the United States.
Believe me; if the Chinese determine it's in their best interests to farm in some (impoverished) Malay, Philippina or Korean chicks to shore up their female shortages; they'll make it happen.
On that you can truss-n-believe. |
Renata
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Post Number: 1212
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:19 pm: |
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Yeah, maybe from THOSE countries....but never a westerner. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 6159
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2006 - 03:31 pm: |
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Renata,
I agree they probably would be less inclined to bring in women from the West than they are chicks from neighboring Asian countries.
But, again, China's been able to hold things down for AWHILE (I mean, we're talking THOUSANDS of years before CHRIST.). They ain't EVEN skurred of some chicks from America or Europe upsetting their applecart.
If necessary, they'd just torture and kill enuff of defiant chicks to scare the others into falling in line with their program.
Again...they KNOW what they're doing, Babe. |
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