1. Shidu
5. Birth Tourism
The OCP has led to the growth of an interesting phenomenon of pregnant women running out of mainland china for delivery. Hong Kong and Saipan, a US territory are becoming the hot sites of this so called “Birth Tourism”
Many went to Hong Kong, which is exempt from the one-child policy. Likewise, a Hong Kong passport differs from China mainland passport by providing additional advantages. Recently though, the Hong Kong government has drastically reduced the quota of births set for non-local women in public hospitals and plans to put high fees or a total ban on such cases.
As the United States practises birthright citizenship, children born in the US will be US citizens. The closest option (from China) is Saipan in …show more content…
Forced Abortions
A deplorable implication which had risen due to the OCP is the sudden rise in abortions and especially reportedly forced abortions by the authorities.
The awful persistence of forced abortions, sterilizations and infanticide in China reflect a contradiction in the Chinese system -- and in the one-child policy itself. The senior leadership in Beijing may set national policy, such as today's relaxation of the one-child policy, but it is local- and provincial-level officials who choose when, whether and how to actually enforce those policies. If those mid-level officials want to do things differently -- say, in the above case, by continuing to use forced abortions to control birth-rates, even though Beijing banned that years ago -- they often do.
Practices of forced abortions, infanticide and involuntary sterilizations are all banned in theory by the government, but it’s very tragic to see they still happen.
Chinese officials want to keep down the birthrate, which is why they enacted the policy in 1979 and have kept it ever since. They hand out birthrate targets to provincial and local officials, telling them they'll be judged on how well they meet the goals. But they also want to forbid state officials to enforce the policy with forced abortions and sterilizations, which are rightly loathed as horrific human rights …show more content…
Besides, the high suicide rate is noticed in the healthy fertile age group of females. Suicide is the leading cause of death for adult women living in rural areas in China.
56% of the world’s female suicides occur in China, but only 19% of the world’s population lives in China.In more rural areas of China, suicide accounts for one third of all female deaths.500 women commit suicide in China each day.
For rural women, easy access to pesticides contributes to the prevalence of suicides.Violence against women and girls, discrimination in education and employment, the traditional preference for male children, birth-limitation policies, and other societal factors contribute to the high female suicide rate.
According to researcher Steven Mosher, it is no accident that, “China's women have the highest suicide rate in the world, not to mention the highest rates of breast cancer, all in consequence of having had their babies killed in utero by a state ruthlessly bent on population control.”
8. Female
5. Birth Tourism
The OCP has led to the growth of an interesting phenomenon of pregnant women running out of mainland china for delivery. Hong Kong and Saipan, a US territory are becoming the hot sites of this so called “Birth Tourism”
Many went to Hong Kong, which is exempt from the one-child policy. Likewise, a Hong Kong passport differs from China mainland passport by providing additional advantages. Recently though, the Hong Kong government has drastically reduced the quota of births set for non-local women in public hospitals and plans to put high fees or a total ban on such cases.
As the United States practises birthright citizenship, children born in the US will be US citizens. The closest option (from China) is Saipan in …show more content…
Forced Abortions
A deplorable implication which had risen due to the OCP is the sudden rise in abortions and especially reportedly forced abortions by the authorities.
The awful persistence of forced abortions, sterilizations and infanticide in China reflect a contradiction in the Chinese system -- and in the one-child policy itself. The senior leadership in Beijing may set national policy, such as today's relaxation of the one-child policy, but it is local- and provincial-level officials who choose when, whether and how to actually enforce those policies. If those mid-level officials want to do things differently -- say, in the above case, by continuing to use forced abortions to control birth-rates, even though Beijing banned that years ago -- they often do.
Practices of forced abortions, infanticide and involuntary sterilizations are all banned in theory by the government, but it’s very tragic to see they still happen.
Chinese officials want to keep down the birthrate, which is why they enacted the policy in 1979 and have kept it ever since. They hand out birthrate targets to provincial and local officials, telling them they'll be judged on how well they meet the goals. But they also want to forbid state officials to enforce the policy with forced abortions and sterilizations, which are rightly loathed as horrific human rights …show more content…
Besides, the high suicide rate is noticed in the healthy fertile age group of females. Suicide is the leading cause of death for adult women living in rural areas in China.
56% of the world’s female suicides occur in China, but only 19% of the world’s population lives in China.In more rural areas of China, suicide accounts for one third of all female deaths.500 women commit suicide in China each day.
For rural women, easy access to pesticides contributes to the prevalence of suicides.Violence against women and girls, discrimination in education and employment, the traditional preference for male children, birth-limitation policies, and other societal factors contribute to the high female suicide rate.
According to researcher Steven Mosher, it is no accident that, “China's women have the highest suicide rate in the world, not to mention the highest rates of breast cancer, all in consequence of having had their babies killed in utero by a state ruthlessly bent on population control.”
8. Female