China has already enacted strict measures aimed at preventing sex-selective abortions, and health authorities also warned in 2018 that the use of abortion to end unwanted pregnancies was harmful to women’s bodies and risked causing infertility.
The state council said the new guidelines, issued on Monday, would aim to improve women’s overall access to pre-pregnancy healthcare services.
Guess it’s time to twist ourselves into knots to explain how restricting women’s reproductive rights is suddenly a good thing :yea:
The drift towards more limits on abortion has been under way for several years. Jiangxi province issued guidelines in 2018 stipulating that women more than 14 weeks pregnant must have signed approval from three medical professionals before having a termination.
Guess we can just downplay and minimize the issue too, that works :yea:
China doing a bad thing is whatever, doesn’t affect me, but internet leftists defending bad things because China’s doing them makes me feel like my only options are uncritical support or uncritical opposition, at which point I will say, “Screw all y’all.”
If that’s all it takes for you to default to western chauvinism then it sounds like your mind is already made up
Love to wait until after the article is already debunked in the comments to make my anti-China post. :big-cool:
People seem incapable of recognizing that China is at the end of the day just a country and not a perfect paradise. There’s lots of things they do much better and lots of things they’ll do worse, that’s how humans are.
Sure maybe this is just an intentional misreading of Chinese policy, US Media tends to be dishonest about it but even if it isn’t that doesn’t make “china bad” suddenly, it just confirms “China is place like everywhere else”
However I do agree at this point we should probably wait and see what this leads to, since right now it’s mostly just a stated intent.
It’s to increase the number of babies born. China’s one child policy worked exactly as it was supposed to and now there’s not enough young people to pay for all the old people’s pensions. In a few decades something like 1/3 of China will be elderly. This is a disaster for an economy. You need lots of young people who spend, spend, spend. Old people collect retirement pay and do nothing for the economy.
