{"id":3365,"date":"2021-06-24T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2021-06-24T03:59:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:59:59","slug":"china-considers-lifting-all-birth-restrictions-in-2025-why-wait-why-not-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/china-considers-lifting-all-birth-restrictions-in-2025-why-wait-why-not-now\/","title":{"rendered":"“China Considers Lifting All Birth Restrictions in 2025” – Why Wait? Why Not Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The recent article<\/a>\u00a0published by the Wall Street Journal stating that the Chinese Communist Party may be considering the end of all coercive population control policies in 2025 will no doubt be met with celebration by some.\u00a0Before celebrating, I would note the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7     The  CCP has not ended birth restrictions.  They are only considering the possibility <\/em><\/strong>of doing so in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7     They have not repented of forced abortion or sterilization, but are considering this measure purely for demographic and economic reasons.  They are desperate for new babies to renew their work force and balance out their rapidly aging population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7     Since they are heading into a demographic disaster, why do they need to wait until 2025?<\/strong>   Until all coercive population control ends, women\u2019s bodies remain in the domain of the State and the Womb Police are still in business.  Women should be free to give birth to their children \u2013 now.<\/strong>   According to a Radio Free Asia report,<\/a> \u201can average of 8 million \u2018extra\u2019 pregnancies are aborted in China each year.\u201d  If the CCP waits until 2025, how many more tens of millions of \u201cextra\u201d pregnancies will be aborted \u2013 often by force?  We call upon the CCP to end all coercive population control immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7     The Three Child Policy rule is that every couple <\/strong>is allowed to have three children.  Therefore, it remains illegal for single women to give birth.  If the CCP \u201celiminates\u201d all birth restrictions, will they finally let single women give birth?  Or will the new rule be, \u201call couples <\/strong>can now have as many children as they want\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Will the abolition of coercive population control be applied to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well?\u00a0\u00a0The CCP is currently committing genocide against them, in large part through forced abortion and sterilization.\u00a0\u00a0They have detained tens of thousands of parents because they had \u201ctoo many children.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0We call on the CCP immediately to stop committing genocide against the Uyghurs through forced abortion and sterilization.\u00a0\u00a0We also call upon them to release all Uyghur parents detained in concentration camps because they have \u201ctoo many children,\u201d and to restore their children to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7     The abolition of all coercive population control restrictions will not by itself restore the population of China.  The CCP did not receive the baby boom it expected when it went from a One-Child Policy to a Two-Child Policy in 2016.  Indeed, after the first year of the Two-Child Policy, the fertility rate declined to its lowest levels in decades.  I believe the same will be true under the Three-Child Policy and would be true if all birth restrictions were lifted.  The CCP has so brutally browbeaten the Chinese people into believing that one child is the ideal number, that many couples do not want more than one child.  In addition, raising children is very expensive in China.  The CCP has fallen victim to its own propaganda.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Three-Child Policy does not provide the boost in babies that the CCP wants, I hope it does not resort to forced pregnancy.  Since coercion is at the core of all of its population control policies, regardless of the number of children \u201callowed,\u201d the possibility of forced pregnancy cannot be dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China Considers Lifting All Birth Restrictions by 2025.\u00a0\u00a06\/18\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-plans-further-shift-toward-encouraging-childbirth-11624003448<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xinjiang Hospitals Aborted, Killed Babies Outside Family Planning Limits:  Uyghur Obstetrician.  8\/17\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/abortions-08172020144036.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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