China's one-child policy should be stopped as it involves forced abortion and others inhuman act. Agree?
91088
why abortion?  a couple has one child and then one of them gets "fixed"  it's the responsibility of the couple, the govt doesn't make them have sex unprotected
430668
You cant force people to be responsible, not in a Democracy anyways. Alot of violent criminals have some degree of brain damage from being abused as children (shaken babies), or from being in so many fights. \nIts ironic. In Michigan, in order to be married, you have to take a Marriage class of some sort. But, anyone with a working set of sex organs can become a mother or father. China has restriction on having children, could such a thing work here, in America? In my favorite movie, Starship Troopers, a person who wants to have children has to get a license for it, but they have a global military socialism. We will have to continue to clean up other peoples bad choices for the fore-seeable future. \nAlot of people dont choose to have children. They choose to have sex, and someone winds up pregnant. When you cant afford new shoes you probably cant afford condoms either. What about abstinence? HA! How does that fit in the hip-hop culture that the next generation is getting into? \nImprisoning parents for their childrens' crimes? GREAT idea! We arent imprisoning enough people, lets find a way to crowd the system even more. Prison is such a great way to reform people...\nI think we should bring back corporal punishment. Like public humiliation could work on some criminals with a certain psychological make-up. In prison, he has to conform with thugs even worse than he is. He learns about how to perpetrate even bigger crimes and is a better educated criminal when he gets out. If he was put on public display that had a sign telling what he is guilty of and he had to see the disgusted looks of old ladies, young kids, and the general public, he might find reform within himself.
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An embryo or fetus is dependent upon its mother's body for survival. A woman has the right to have absolute dominion over her own person, and since the fetus or embryo is part of her person, no one has the right to force her to carry it to term.\n\nKilling an unborn child in a war is wrong, because you are murdering a separate life form whose existence is not dependent upon yours. And not only that, but the right of the mother of the unborn child to autonomy over her own body has been violated. It's forced abortion, pure and simple.\n\nI have mixed feelings about the death penalty. On the one hand, since murderers have deprived others of their right to live, they should also be robbed of theirs. On the other hand, since so many people have been wrongly convicted of murder, the death penalty should be abolished, because executions are irreversible.
824462
I agree with you that abortions are wrong. I strongly believe that it is cruel and takes away the life of a child. Everyone should have the right to live and I believe it is selfish of someone to take away a child's entire life because they don't want 9 months of suffering. If they can't take care of the child there is always adoption. To those who say that a women should have the right to chose, what about the unborn child, shouldn't he have some rights or at the very least the right to live. Now this is also disapproved by religion as it goes against the 10 commandments as so forth but it is more then that, its a matter of love and selflessness, its morality and common sense. Abortion is murder and murder is wrong.
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Usually the family lives in poverty.\n\n"Fertility industry takes off in China; doctors concerned about abuses\n(AFP)\n\n29 March 2005 \n\n\n\nBEIJING - It is considered a slow day at the Peking University Third Hospital in China’s capital, but the fertility clinic’s waiting room and hallways are overflowing with women seeking help.\n\n\nSome have travelled far from the countryside, where an infertile woman is looked upon with pity. One young woman’s husband divorced her after she failed to conceive three years into the marriage. Others, including urban career women, appear too ashamed or embarrassed to speak.\n\nSlowly but surely, barren women in China are realizing there is hope out there and they do not have to helplessly suffer the intense stigma of being childless in a society that places supreme importance on having kids.\n\n“In China, the responsibility is often placed on the women. In the past, couples who can’t have kids either adopt or divorce,” says Qiao Jie, director of gynecology and obstetrics at Third Hospital, China’s biggest authorized fertility center and its first to produce a test-tube baby.\n\n“Now, more and more people are becoming open to fertility treatment. There are more than 200 reproduction centers in China, but this is not enough to meet the demand.”\n\nUnmonitored sector\n\nStatistics from China’s Ministry of Health indicate more than 3,000 test-tube babies, or babies conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), have been born in China since the country’s first successful case in 1988, according to state media.\n\nDoctors such as Qiao, however, believe many more such babies have been born through IVF or other fertility treatment, such as inter uterus insemination as well as fertility drugs.\n\nThe industry is believed to be huge.\n\nStatistics are hard to come by because the sector is largely unmonitored, but more than 10 million Chinese families need artificial fertilization, according to Xinhua news agency.\n\nMany of them are undergoing fertility treatment, which is much more affordable in China than overseas.\n\n“There’s a huge demand,” says Zhao Lixin, deputy director of the reproduction center in east China’s Shandong Province Hospital.\n\n“There is a Sino-US joint-venture hospital in Shanghai which treats more couples than any other in China. Just that hospital alone probably helped conceive 3,000 babies.”\n\nIncreased public awareness is one key reason spurring couples to seek treatment.\n\nInfertility in rise\n\nChinese women, like women in Western countries, are also delaying marriage, although not by as long, leading to problems becoming pregnant.\n\nStressful and unhealthy lifestyles linked to China’s dramatic socio-economic changes -- including obesity, drinking, smoking and environmental problems -- have also hiked infertility rates, experts say.\n\nMost experts believe the percentage of Chinese couples suffering from infertility is rising and is around 10 percent of total couples.\n\nIn China, the success rate for fertility treatment -- measured by whether the women get pregnant -- is around 35 percent for IVF, on par with Western countries, doctors say.\n\nIt costs around 3,000 yuan (361 dollars) to have an assisted insemination -- insemination of sperm into the ovary -- and 20,000 yuan (2,400 dollars) to have in vitro fertilization, where the egg and sperm are fertilized in a lab, with the embryo then inserted into the woman.\n\nThe price tags are prohibitive for most people -- worth several or many times their annual salary -- but an increasing number of Chinese families are able to afford treatment.\n\nCapitalizing on the demand, many unauthorized clinics with ill-trained doctors and inadequate technology have popped up.\n\nOne-child policy\n\nLicensed hospitals say the government needs to step up regulations of the industry not just to prevent people being duped but also to stop abuses -- such as couples using fertility treatment to b
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Yes, i would adopt from China probably, (since they are a hard surpressive government and they are not too nice to female children.
954392
I wouldn't tell you.\n\nI think abortion is a desecration of life.   I know from me that's kind of ..."WOW" but that's what I truly believe.\n I think abortion is just an excuse for people to have unprotected sex and not have to take on responsibility for their actions.  I also think it's sad that a baby don't get the chance to grow up and solve all the problems of that crappy country.\n\nI DO however think the men of those crappy countries should be "fixed" after fathering one child.   If you can't feed one and you can't control your pecker then.....
851240
I suppose they think it's acceptable because if the government is going to pay them for having babies, why not?  Of course, I do believe that it's unfair to lay all the blame at the women's feet.  No one forces the men not to wear condoms.  It takes two to make a baby and both should be held responsible.\n\nI think that, instead of rewarding people who have all of these illegitimate children, the government should penalize them.  I know that sounds harsh, but the system is being taken advantage of.  I think that people who have no children or one child should be rewarded with a larger tax refund each year. People with two children should get nothing more, but nothing taken away and people with three or more children should be taxed more.  (Of course, if a law like this were passed, I'd say that people who already have three or more should be grandfathered in and be viewed as people who have two children.)
610355
It does seem like sterilizing a needle for a person that is being killed by the government don't it. I think a person ought to be able to choose their own path to hell. So why are their such laws.
272940
I'm not doing your homework for you.  But I'll take the 2 points!\n\nOh well, uh China like killed a bunch of like people b/c of the need for all the men to wear queues as a way of submission to the Emperor & they like chose death instead. Wait that wasn't a benefit...
95253
I am not a pro-lifer but the way I see it - which could be wrong - without repeating what others said is that you cannot kill a soul.I believe in reincarnation. OK....once born : different question and a dilemna.\nBut on the whole : is an unwanted child better ? I don't think so at all. \nWhat if people were forced to adopt a child they did not want ? Life for everyone would be very miserable.\nAnd to those out there : sometimes girls need to hide the fact from the family so putting up for adoption is out of question. The family would resent it a lot and force the girl to have and keep the child.\nChildren should be wanted and loved. If that is not the case, better have an abortion rather than raise an unfit, miserable human being.
153411
personally a person that has more than one abortion is stupid. using abortion as a method of birth control is very risky.
379708
I think all of that is hogwash. I'm an advocate for abortion if it's for the right reasons. Do you remember anything about being concieved, or do you remember anything about being a fetus, because I sure don't. It's "preventing" life, not killing it. And i'll take that in a second, rather than another crackbaby born into a dysfunctional family with a miserable life ahead of it.
835615
Since there is so much poverty, overpopulation, dissapearing animal habitats, de-forestation to keep up building homes I think the world should adopt the China rule.  1 kid and 1 kid only.
905174
Abortion is the killing of an unborn child! It's not a lifeless blob. That makes little to no sense at all. If you put a woman and a man together, they're not going to create a blob. They're gonna create a CHILD, which is what a fetus is. If one says ' I cant care for the child.....I have work school etc', adoption is a good answer. For the kids concieved in rape, it's not the childs fault who the father is. I feel for the mother and the baby.... But truly, it's a horrible horrible crime and should be stopped.
36225
i think anyone that can have a abortion should never have kids because if they can kill one child then can kill another.
731053
Killing other people is wrong. Government should set an example in this matter. Abortion is also worth of cautious judgment, but how to add to peoples`s responsibility? Remember that making mistakes, even the gravest ones, is only human but forgiving is divine.