Contraceptives In China

[MithLuin]

Chinese culture traditionally values their elderly, so I would think that a euthanasia program would not go over well. Not that anything has ever stopped the Chinese govt from doing as it pleases, but I meant...it would seem a very 'unChinese' thing to do. Maybe.

The grandparent problem is real - 2 generations of only kids means that one child is responsible for caring for all 4 grandparents (and if this child marries an only child, for all 4 of the spouse's grandparents as well). This is obviously a difficult situation, and allowing the second generation to have 2 kids only partially alleviates it.

Catholics in China are certainly persecuted, but the 'One-to-Two Child Policy' is only part of it. I'm very glad I don't live there, though the Church has always been vibrant and thrived under persecution, so maybe the Church is healthier there.

[alleros]

They do track women down; villages have a paid "informer" and the women are forced then.

[quote name='CatherineM' date='11 October 2009 - 06:50 PM' timestamp='1255305015' post='1983347']
They'd have to track me down and kill me before I would comply with an abortion.
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[Jaime]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='11 October 2009 - 09:32 PM' timestamp='1255311131' post='1983476']
It is never acceptable to use artificial contraception.
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“the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of thosetherapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if aforeseeable impediment to procreation should result there from—providedsuch impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever” (HV15).

While that little correction is taken care of, what China is doing does not constitute therapeutic.

[Hassan]

[quote name='eagle_eye222001' date='12 October 2009 - 06:45 PM' timestamp='1255387532' post='1984132']
According to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#The_.22Four-Two-One.22_problem"]Wikipedia[/url], 35.9% are subject to the "one child" policy.

According to the [url="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6726244.ece"]Times[/url]article,





Piecing some stuff together, it may very well be that only 35% is subject to the "one child only" policy since they have had the policy in effect for 30 years. So the number of people eligible for two would increase since 30 years is a long enough time to build up a bunch of single kid families and the second article points to the fact that China has a growing crisis of being unable to care for its elderly.
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No, the reach of the state has never been nearly what it is in Urban Han China in the rural Han or non Han Chinese populations. Rural Chinese generally have more freedoms from direct state intervention.