Mom's Forced Abortion at 7 Months May Not Be the Last

Sorry, but your comparison doesn't fly. American women have the right to choose: they have the right to choose from various forms of birth control if they prefer not to have children, or they can choose to have their tubes tied, or choose to abstain from sex. And if, for whatever reason, they choose to risk beoming pregnant by having unprotected sex or by choosing to not take birth control, they have the choice to visit their local reproductive health care provider (i.e. Planned Parenthood) and terminate the pregnancy that was their choice to begin with. How quickly we forget that a woman's right to choose begins with her choices leading up to and including intercourse, and not just after conception. On the other hand, women in China who genuinely long to have more children have NO choice unless they are rich enough to afford the tax. For decades, Chinese women have been forced to terminate pregnancies that they wanted because they had no other options available to them - unlike American women.

They shouldn't have forced the issue because she was in a rural area. But overpopulation is a serious issue. Their famine was no joke. People ate dirt. They stripped trees of their leaves and then their bark. 36, some say 43 milliom MILLION died. People are horrified by 6 million but 36 milion died and the horror forgotten. This policy didn't develop just to traumatize this lady. Overpopulation still is a threat the world over. More countries, esp poverty stricken, drought-stricken ones need to have a similar policy. Heck our food aid should be tied to this. Food for Africa, but you already had 7 malnourished kids in the refugee camp and are pregnant again? No. That's not right. Tie it to abortion/contraception/sterilization. Fewer kids=greater prosperity=sufficient food. More trees, fewer peole = a planet still able to support life. America should have have similar with women with child after child on welfare. We can't afford this.  We should stop rewarding irresponsibility with more money. On welfare, get pregnant? Abort if you want to stay on welfare.  And if you don't want that? Let one of the doankeelyerbaybee robotdrones take you in (you will, right?) 

Rest in peace little angel :'( (yes I saw the picture...heartbreaking)

Don't change any policy regardless of what this dump experts say, so that the China's population will reduce to a sustainable level of under 1 billion by 2060. Please implement the one child policy more strictly as the current world is already having problems with diminishing natural resources that humans are beginning to slowly fight for it (rohingya people in mynamar, immigration problems in europe, etc). If the population grows at the current rate, a WW3 or nationalization leading mass expulsion of people in many country by the majority will become inevitable. To all my american friends, supporting chinese to breed like crazy==more cheap labor at a low cost and with technology advance, we will soon see every single one of our jobs send to the communist china or India where things can be done at less than 1/4 of a cost. To all those Americans who chinese citizens to have unlimited babies, then you really are not really thinking about our country's future and our own jobs that our greedy capitalist will soon have a chance to replace with machines (Where will the jobs come from for all the world youth?)and cheap labor in these countries. Right now everything is alright for us because we are living in dreams by piling out debt and spending money that we do not have.

As a mother of a four year-old daughter and a woman who is against abortion for myself, I cannot imagine the torment this mother is going through. I suffered a miscarriage in December of last year, and I am still trying to deal with my grief. It is difficult for me to believe this kind of thing still occurs in the world today. My heart goes out to the family, and any other families who are subjected to this painful practice.

They - Chinese officials - did the right thing. One has to remember that China has to support over 1.2BILLION people. I've always wondered why they don't sterilize the women after they've given birth to their one and only child. Seems to me that would be much more humane than murdering a child through no fault of their own.

I disagree with the whole over population thing.... if we would recycle, plant gardens and replace every thing we use (ie trees) then maybe we wouldn't have a problem. And oh build more apartment buildings for people to live in.  And I bet most of you think that the people who have 12 or 13 kids are just horrid.  Do you know the age group in china please research everything.  After my kids are down for sleep I do research whats going on in the world.  I take time to gather all facts.  So please people stop and think.

They've been doing this for at least 40 years in China.  Where have you been?

Look at the pictures, this is about the murder of a child, not about choice. It you still don't get it, there are more like them all over the Internet. China does not value life, not yours, not mine, not the lives of the Chinese people.

As for the political dialogue, if the American people want to take control of their country, stop selling entire fields of human and animal stock food to be shipped overseas to China because you, the farmer, are too lazy to hawk your wares the old fashion way. This would lower the price of food at the grocery stores (you know one of those things we need to survive), and stop buying cheap Chinese made plastic toys at every dollar store that pops up. You know they end up in the trash anyway. There are more of these common sense, get back on the US track strategies, but common sense is something we've been lacking lately. Greed, however, is rampant.