China 's efforts to control population growth has led to many issues. The government 's One Child Policy was the cause of the many issues within the population such as decline in birth rates, unequal sex ratios, gender imbalance, and population growth. In China’s efforts to control population growth, sex selective abortion cases have increased.
Consider the 2011 murder of a seven month old baby. In Beijing, a woman was seven months pregnant with her second child when several people entered her home and took her away (Denyer). Her husband followed the group to the hospital. There, the group ignored the medical advice. Then without consent, they forcefully put a needle into her stomach. “They grabbed my wife’s body like they were grabbing a …show more content…
The gender imbalance and skewed sex ratios are due to new updated technologies (“Gendercide”). Throughout China, prenatal screenings were becoming more common and widespread. Prenatal screening has lead to many abortions of baby girls which caused an unbalanced sex ratio (“Policies Against”). Once a women got a prenatal screening to determine the sex of the fetus, she would then decide whether to keep the baby or undergo an abortion. In most cases, when the fetus was a female, women would choose to abort, only because the child was not a male. “Prenatal diagnosis of sex and selective abortion for males has been outlawed in series of regulations” (“Policies Against”). However, prenatal diagnosis is permitted by request, only to diagnose any hereditary diseases (Nie). These new technologies have become a big issue in China, whereas the technologies such as ultrasounds, are being used for prenatal diagnosis for illegal …show more content…
Another one of the more serious factors happens to be sex ratios. The ratios have been affected due to the previous one child policy, which served as a form of family planning. This has become a real problem whereas, due to the policies, families would choose to have a male rather than a female to fulfill the quota. Female infanticide is evident in China. “Women are missing in their millions-aborted, killed, neglected to death” (“Gendercide”). Also, some couples fail to report female selective abortions which causes high mortality of female infants and an imbalance in gender
Consider the 2011 murder of a seven month old baby. In Beijing, a woman was seven months pregnant with her second child when several people entered her home and took her away (Denyer). Her husband followed the group to the hospital. There, the group ignored the medical advice. Then without consent, they forcefully put a needle into her stomach. “They grabbed my wife’s body like they were grabbing a …show more content…
The gender imbalance and skewed sex ratios are due to new updated technologies (“Gendercide”). Throughout China, prenatal screenings were becoming more common and widespread. Prenatal screening has lead to many abortions of baby girls which caused an unbalanced sex ratio (“Policies Against”). Once a women got a prenatal screening to determine the sex of the fetus, she would then decide whether to keep the baby or undergo an abortion. In most cases, when the fetus was a female, women would choose to abort, only because the child was not a male. “Prenatal diagnosis of sex and selective abortion for males has been outlawed in series of regulations” (“Policies Against”). However, prenatal diagnosis is permitted by request, only to diagnose any hereditary diseases (Nie). These new technologies have become a big issue in China, whereas the technologies such as ultrasounds, are being used for prenatal diagnosis for illegal …show more content…
Another one of the more serious factors happens to be sex ratios. The ratios have been affected due to the previous one child policy, which served as a form of family planning. This has become a real problem whereas, due to the policies, families would choose to have a male rather than a female to fulfill the quota. Female infanticide is evident in China. “Women are missing in their millions-aborted, killed, neglected to death” (“Gendercide”). Also, some couples fail to report female selective abortions which causes high mortality of female infants and an imbalance in gender