Mainland China’s Xinhua News Agency announced today that Communist China is moving to a universal two-child policy. This comes as no surprise, given the demographic disaster manland China now faces as a result of its One Child Policy.
However, instituting a two-child policy will not end forced abortion, gendercide or family planning regulations in China. Couples will still have to have a birth permit for the first and the second child, or a pregnant mother may be subject to forced abortion. The core of the One Child Policy is not the number of children the government allows. Rather, it is the fact that the government is setting a limit on children, and enforcing this limit coercively. This will not change under a two-child policy. The One Child Policy does not need to be modified; it needs to be abolished.
Women will still be forcibly aborted under a universal two-child policy. We need to keep up the pressure until China abandons all coercive population control.
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Reggie Littlejohn is president and founder of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an international advocacy organization that opposes forced abortion and sexual slavery in China and champions women’s rights.