Two Child Policy In China

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Lucianne Brown Nancy Bauch Speech block 1 13 May 2016 Why the Two-Child Policy Shouldn?t be Put Into Place in America. A majority of people have heard about China?s two-child policy, but have you ever wondered what would happen if the two-child policy was put into place in America? It might not be a good thing. We should be concerned because if the two-child policy was put into place in America it might actually cause more harm than good. Today, I will inform you about the two-child policy, and why it is a bad solution. The two-child policy is a policy put into place by governments to limit the number of children a person can have in order to prevent population growth. Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people typically for the In china, in order to try and enforce the policy the government started forcing women to get an abortion. Could you imagine the government telling you have no choice but to kill your unborn child (Torrent)? You might feel like your rights have been violated that is because they have been, in fact, the two-child policy itself is a violation of basic human rights. In 1968, the international conference on human rights said ?parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number of their children? (Torrent). Another major way that the government could violate your basic human rights due to the policy is forced sterilization. Forced sterilization is when a person is either unaware or unwilling to be sterilized but are anyways (Moore). Imagine you go to the hospital to for a simple surgery and come out unable to have children. You didn?t give your consent to be sterilized, but yet it happened anyways. This is what happened to approximately 196 million men and women since 1971 (Moore). While trying to enforce the two-child policy our government would constantly be violating our human rights. Not to mention, the possibility of unequal enforcement. When the policy was put into place in China, wealthier families paid the government to look the other way when they had more children. This could easily become a problem if the policy was put into place in America. People with a higher status could pay to have a third child. Imagine you live in the middle class. You already have two children, but you just found out you are having another baby. You know your options. You are going to be forced to either give the child up for adoption or get an abortion. You decide to give your baby up for adoption. However, only a year later you visit one of your wealthy friends, and you discover they have an undocumented third child that the government allowed them to keep because they paid them to look the other way. It feels so

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