According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Cai Fang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has stated:\u00a0 \u201cWe will fully relax the policy\u201d in two years, allowing all couples to have a second child.\u00a0 The reason:\u00a0 China\u2019s shrinking labor pool will cause the potential growth rate to fall an average of 6.2 percent annually from 2016 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, has responded: \u00a0\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party is finally waking up to the fact that, by instituting the brutal One Child Policy for economic reasons 34 year ago, it unwittingly signed its own economic death warrant.\u00a0 China will grow old before it grows rich.\u00a0 China\u2019s population problem is not that it has too many people, but that it has too few young people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say that China \u2018will fully relax the policy\u2019 is extremely misleading,\u201d Littlejohn continued.\u00a0 \u201cAllowing all couples to have a second child does not constitute a \u2018full relaxation\u2019 of the One-Child Policy. The problem with the One Child Policy is not the number of children \u2018allowed.\u2019\u00a0 Rather, it is the fact that the CCP is telling women how many children they can have and then enforcing that limit through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. <\/b>\u00a0Even if all couples were allowed two children, there is no guarantee that the CCP will cease their appalling methods of enforcement.\u00a0 Women will still need a birth permit to have their first and second child.\u00a0 Women who get pregnant without permission will still be dragged out of their homes, strapped down to tables and forced to abort babies that they want, even up to the ninth month of pregnancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurthermore, instituting a two-child policy will not end gendercide.\u00a0 Indeed, areas in which two children currently are allowed are especially vulnerable to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of females.\u00a0 According to the 2009 British Medical Journal study of 2005 national census data, in nine provinces, for \u2018second order births\u2019 where the first child is a girl, 160 boys were born for every 100 girls. In two provinces, Jiangsu and Anhui, for the second child, there were 190 boys for every hundred girls born. This study stated, \u2018Sex selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males.\u2019\u00a0 Because of this gendercide, there are an estimated 37 million Chinese men who will never marry because their future wives were terminated before they were born. This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well. <\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party periodically modifies the One Child Policy, but the coercion at its core remains.\u00a0 Indeed, \u2018One Child Policy\u2019 is a misnomer that causes confusion.\u00a0 There are numerous exceptions under which couples can have a second child, but enforcement through forced abortion remains.\u00a0 It should be called China\u2019s \u2018Forced Abortion Policy.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cThe coercive enforcement of China\u2019s One Child Policy continues to cause more violence toward women and girls than any other official policy on earth, and any other official policy in the history of the world.\u00a0 Those who care about women and girls must continue to press with persistence until forced abortion and gendercide are eradicated from the face of the earth. <\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cChina\u2019s Forced Abortion Policy does not need to be modified.\u00a0 It needs to be abolished.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0View WRWF\u2019s \u201cSave a Girl\u201d campaign to end gendercide and forced abortion. Sign a petition to end forced abortion. Watch S<\/span>top Forced Abortion \u2013 China\u2019s War on Women! Video (4 mins) <\/span>http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/?nav=stop-forced-abortion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Related Links:<\/p>\n China to Broaden Two-Child Policy in 2 Years, Adviser Says<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-17\/china-to-widen-two-child-policy-in-2-years-policy-adviser-says.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Cai Fang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has stated:\u00a0 \u201cWe will fully relax the policy\u201d in two years, allowing all couples to have a second child.\u00a0 The reason:\u00a0 China\u2019s … Continue reading
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