Couldn't even be bothered to not have "both sides" below the fold, they're really expecting me to pay to read the rest of the article.

The "critical" part of critical support: the one-child policy was shitty and led to a bunch of bad knock-on effects, I'm happy they got rid of it after 2015; there is for sure a lot more work to be done on this front

The "support" part of critical support: Lmao, you can just get an abortion in china unlike the US, it was blanket legalized in 1988 (with aditional stipulations depending on the province). You can't equivocate a country where people are getting progressively more rights with another country where people are losing progressively more rights.

edit: as one of our wonderful posters points out, limited legal abortion was available since 1953

The original article is here I use a paywall removing browser addon that works particularly well on Firefox. Will paste full text shortly.

  • ShareThatBread [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    And as I was finally taking a moment to digest the impact of the news, I received a text message from my graduate school friend Zoe, another Chinese immigrant who currently lives in California: “When I was in elementary school, I wouldn’t believe that when I was in my 30s, the No. 1 country in the world would not allow abortion.”

    :agony-yehaw:

    • save_vs_death [they/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      folks, all my chinese friends stop me and they tell me "america number one", more and more of them are saying it, and i happen to agree

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      People who immigrate to a different country than the one of their birth likely view it as better and other news at 11

      Also, being a complete cretin not typically an obstacle to immigrating

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        This is why you should take what immigrants say with a grain of salt. People would ask me if I lived underground because immigrants from my country had told them the cartels ran the entire country. We don't even get the cartels as bad as Mexico does.

      • ShareThatBread [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        People who immigrate to a different country than the one of their birth likely view it as better and other news at 11

        "When I was in elementary school"

        I think it's more likely the power of US propaganda through every stage of life. No other anglosphere nation is anywhere near this level.