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OFFICIALS in southern China have launched a campaign to sterilise nearly 10,000 people as part of a crackdown on parents who violate family-planning rules, state media reports.
Family planning authorities in Puning, a city in Guangdong province, have detained more than 1300 people in the drive, the Nanfang Countryside Daily said in an investigative report.
The 20-day campaign launched last week is targeting 9559 people considered the "most severe violators of the family planning policy in Puning," the Global Times said.
So far half the couples targeted had agreed to sterilisation, the paper said.
Originally posted by VintageEnvy
So they're basically arrested then being held till they agree to being sterilized. Wow, thats sick that that is happening in freaking 2010. I dont know these peoples situations or anything like that but why would they stay there. Hopefully they'll be let go and they can get the tits outta there and go somewhere where theyre not treated like a stray cat.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
lemme tell ya a story
down the road from me there is a 28 yr old woman
who has 6 children ...................
She lives and survives off the system.
I asked her a while back if she was ever going back
to work and she said HELL NO !!!
I make too much money having babies.
Now, you ask yourself
does China have this problem ???
Originally posted by Shere Khaan
I thought that recently China was slackening off it's very tough one child laws... apparently not. I personally find it hard to reconcile the balance between need for constrained population versus basic human rights. If we breed unchecked like animals we can expect the same natural limitations imposed on us by disease starvation and social unrest.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
She doesn't have to work, her children ARE her work
Originally posted by catwhoknows
reply to post by pstrron
How could they not have looked ahead and seen that there would be a zillion boys and no girls, leading to total chaos?