Chinese Birth Control Laws

Another issue surrounding the one-child policy is that there have been many civilian riots and deaths. Since this issue is so controversial and people want to protest it there have been many outbreaks of riots. For example, in 2007, at least 20 population control officials and 40 protesters were killed in a series of violent riots and outbreaks in the southwestern Guangxi Autonomous Region of China. This is because officials were allegedly forcing pregnant woman already with another child into cars and driving them to abortion clinics where they were threatened into having abortions. This is obviously illegal and extremely heinous. If something is not done about this soon, more people will needlessly die.

Lastly, many marriages and families lives have been utterly decimated due to this horrible and unlawful law. Like in the example in the first paragraph, many happily married families get another baby on the way (purposely or accidentally) and because of various circumstances have to either abort the baby or give up the current one for adoption. Usually parents give up their children because they don’t have enough money to pay the fines or, since having two children has become taboo, society pressures them into giving it up for adoption. Losing a child is hard enough, but purposely killing or choosing to give up a child is enough of an emotional upset to ruin someone’s entire life. It is a horrible scenario to contemplate, but sadly it is one that every family living in China has to deal with every day.

In closing, this is a dangerous problem which threatens not only China but many other large growing countries. There have been an estimated 300 million babies aborted or given up because of this horrific law. These were 300 million people who never got the chance to be born, never got the chance to be loved and never got the chance to live. The Chinese government is not planning on regressing the fines or pressures on families and if something is not done now, more riots will break out, more families will be torn apart and more babies will needlessly die because of this unfair and unjust ordinance.