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.

  • 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]
      ·
      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