China's Huge About-face: Announces End to One-Child Policy, Will Now Allow Two Children for All Couples

Ben Johnson : Oct 29, 2015
LifeSiteNews.com

Chinese officials announced in 2012 that the one child policy prevented 400 million births, a number that includes 336 million abortions—more than five times the number of abortions that have taken place in the United States since Roe v. Wade.

(Beijing, China)—The world's most restrictive population control policy has been relaxed—but human rights advocates say they will not rest until all forced and sex-selective abortions are abolished. (Photo: Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews)

Chinese Communist Party officials have announced they will change the terms of the nation's 35-year-old one child policy to allow all Chinese couples the right to have two children.

The state-run Xinhua news agency announced that Communist officials eased the restrictions "to improve the balanced development of [China's] population."

Introduced in the late 1970s and officially enacted in 1980, Chinese officials said the one child policy was necessary to limit its population boom. Communist agents enforced the policy through a series of birth permits, compulsory sterilizations, and forced abortions.

Chinese officials announced in 2012 that the one child policy prevented 400 million births, a number that includes 336 million abortions—more than five times the number of abortions that have taken place in the United States since Roe v. Wade.

Now the nation, which numbers 1.3 billion people, is facing a demographic spiral. The Chinese workforce will lose 67 million people over the course of the in the next 15 years, and the United Nations estimates that 440 million Chinese—approximately one-quarter of the population—will...

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