China Replaces One-Child Policy with Two-Child One

China has officially replaced its “one-child” policy with a two-child one. The draconian one-child policy was introduced in 1979 to slow population growth. The result has been the murder of an estimated 336 million babies, mostly females. That is a third of a BILLION children that have been killed in the womb, and this figure doesn’t include the infanticides that have been committed outside of the womb. As a result, there is a shortage of wives for Chinese men who want to marry. There are 20 million more men than women in China (“The ‘marriage squeeze,’”Business Insider, Apr. 23, 2015). In 2014, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou was fined 7.48 million yuan ($1.2 million) for breaching the nation’s one-child policy (“Filmmaker fined,” CNN, Jan, 20, 2014). Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The new policy is only a matter of tweaking existing policy. The Communist government still claims for itself the power of life and death over its slave population. China has made great strides in many areas, but it is not a great nation.

(Friday Church News Notes, November 6, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)

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