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.

  • DonaldJBrandon [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I recently read that they are restricting abortion again in China, as of February, due to population issues. Anyone know if this is actually true?

    Edit: it's false I was tricked by the propaganda machine :sicko-no:

    • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      That's the media doing that thing where they spin good things China is doing as bad somehow.

      For example, in the Al Jazeera article there are only two actual policies mentioned:

      The State Council said the new guidelines would aim to improve women’s overall access to pre-pregnancy healthcare services.

      And

      After years of trying to limit population growth, Beijing is now promising new policies aimed at encouraging families to have more children.

      It said in June that it would now allow all couples to have three children instead of two. New policies designed to reduce the financial burden of raising children are also being introduced

      Both of which seem unambiguously good even if the motivating factor is to have more kids. All of the articles I've read on the subject have been in a similar vein as well.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago
        After years of trying to limit population growth, Beijing is now promising new policies aimed at encouraging families to have more children.

        I just realized that the "everybody has tried to increase birth rates and failed" is probably just a side-effect of everybody being capitalist

      • DonaldJBrandon [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        This should do, there's a bunch of articles like this https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/27/china-restricts-abortions-for-non-medical-purposes

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-12-08/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDYxMDE5/index.html

          They want to reduce unwanted pregnancies and therefore the need for abortion. Some people in China were concerned that there would be restrictions on abortion access for pregnant women and girls so CGTN did this interview with the doctor in charge of the family planning dept in Shanxi Women's and Children's Hospital.

          Of course Western media will spin China announcing a campaign to financially support young families, and provide contraception and sex education to young people so that less people go through unwanted pregnancies as authoritarian while the US literally bans abortions.

          • DonaldJBrandon [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            My god, lol. I actually searched about this like 3 or 4 months ago and I swore there were articles outright saying that they were basically going to ban elective abortions, but now when I search they basically don't have any evidence and asset that there is a "fear" that they will. Idk whether I misread it or if they actually changed their articles, but this is great to know.

            Thank you CCP for supporting young people and leading them to live better more fulfilled lives through family support and education :rat-salute:

            • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              It's easy to get the wrong idea when literally every "respectable" English language media outlet is trying to lie to you. Took me several minutes to find this, think it was 2-3 pages in.

              • DonaldJBrandon [none/use name]
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                2 years ago

                Yeah it really is lol I think it was also on Wikipedia or something and it may have been edited out. Well for what it's worth I'm very glad they are continuing a Marxist approach instead of doing abortion bans