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One CHILD POLICY in china
PROS
Merely promoting contraception is not a sure way to curb population growth.
It could also be an effective way to prevent the spreading of STDs such as AIDS.
In the case of a couple that are both mentally handicapped
A punishment such as sterilization could prove an effective deterrent to criminals.
Eliminates “insult” to “normal” people.
Seeks out the “best” genes and kills off the “worst” genes.
Stopped “contamination” of gene pool.
Believed that the sterile people could provide a temporary work force.
Believed poverty and crime would be reduced.
Lowered population.
CONS
It could be argued that everyone has the right to have a child.
Most of the time sterilization isn't really necessary.
Nobody has the right to ‘Play God’.
In many cases, sterilization is done in a very brutal way to people and done in such a way that people have to comply.
Mandatory sterilization can also go to extents such as mandatory abortion.
Mandatory sterilization has gone to extents such as doing so to exterminate or destroy another race or ethnic group.
In many of the countries that this is being done, their children are the only joy in life.
The “one child policy” of China causes deaths of more babies due to the fact that many Chinese people want a boy.
In many cases, it is not the act of sterilization that is the problem,
It is a person's basic human right to be able to have children. Forced sterilization took away this right for so many.
Classified people as being inferior, feebleminded, and contaminated.
Death was often the result of these operations.