--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 8/12/06 1:27:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > sparaig@ writes: > > > > Except it hasn't worked out that way. And the CHinese HAVE > > backed off from the social planning thing, to a great extent. > > > > You just posted earlier that they are correcting the problem of > > allowing women to choose to abort female fetuses. > > Never said anything about that, either way. > > That means they HAVEN"T backed off of > > social engineering. If the government is forcing women to give > > birth to babies they don't want in order to fill a need for equal > > ratio of boy to girl births, the government is most certainly > > practicing social engineering. > > Don't know anything about that and never claimed I > did. My proposal was merely about the legality of > using ultrasound to determine the gender of the unborn.
Apparently selective abortion of female children is punishable by imprisonment, or fines in the case of an institution that permits it. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/314/7095/1685 "The ugliest aspects of the policy have received great attention: female infanticide, forced abortions, and selective abortion of female fetuses. There is no doubt that all of these have occurred, but they have now disappeared completely in many places. This is because people are accepting birth limitation more readily and because of the strict legislation covering these acts. Not only do individuals risk imprisonment, but health institutions allowing such practices are liable to heavy fines. Abandonment of baby girls and babies with defects persists, but this was common long before the one child policy." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
