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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0After decades of limiting families to one child via forced abortions and sterilization, the Chinese government is undertaking a campaign to encourage more babies in hopes of staving off a demographic crisis.<\/p>\n

China began implementing<\/a> its one-child policy in 1980, amid fears of food shortages and hopes of cutting the country\u2019s population to under 1.2 billion by the end of the 20th century. In 2016, concerns that there would be too few young workers to replace and support an aging population led the Communist regime<\/a> to allow couples to have two children. That concession sparked a brief population spike that year, but it didn\u2019t continue into 2017.<\/p>\n

A government study<\/a> released in July estimated that the Chinese workforce could decline by 100 million people from 2020 to 2035, and by another 100 million from 2035 to 2050. Additionally, by discriminating against baby girls, China\u2019s draconian policies left fewer women in the population to give birth in the first place.<\/p>\n

READ: 67-year-old woman in China threatened for refusing to abort twins<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Demographer He Yafu estimates that the number of Chinese women between ages 20-39 may drop from 202 million to 163 million over the next ten years. \u201cWithout the introduction of measures to encourage fertility, the population of China will drop sharply in the future,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Officials are now struggling to encourage a baby boom among a citizenry reluctant to provide one, the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>. \u201cTo put it bluntly, the birth of a baby is not only a matter of the family itself, but also a state affair,\u201d an editorial in the official state newspaper People\u2019s Daily<\/em> declared this week.<\/p>\n

Measures under consideration to incentivize more births include tax, housing, and education benefits for young families, preschool and child clinic funding, parental leave extensions, new limits on divorce and abortion, and potentially even abolishing limits on family size entirely. Allowing families to have as many children as they want remains controversial, however, as it would constitute an admission of the one- and two-child policies\u2019 failure.<\/p>\n

The National Health Commission claims the two-child policy is still having a successful impact, with the government simply needing to improve benefits to alleviate the \u201cpractical difficulties in fertility and child-rearing.\u201d But others fear such efforts will be inadequate.<\/p>\n

The Times<\/em> reports that the regime\u2019s efforts \u201care faltering because parents are deciding against having more children,\u201d citing educated women \u201cpostponing childbirth as they pursue careers\u201d as well as young couples struggling to meet their immediate economic needs.<\/p>\n

But while China\u2019s shifting policies may sound like welcome news to pro-life critics of China\u2019s forced abortions, Population Research Institute (PRI) president Steve Mosher warns<\/a> that because the changes are based on self-interest rather than humanitarianism, the old policies could likely be replaced by new forms of oppression.<\/p>\n

READ: More human rights abuses in China: Newborn baby girl thrown over a wall<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReversing this death spiral and stabilizing the population will require the relatively few women available, or at least many of them, to give birth to three or more children,\u201d he writes. \u201cThe \u2018reproductive freedom\u2019 that the Party now proposes to offer women may prove only a way station on the road to something much darker \u2013 something more closely resembling reproductive servitude than reproductive freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes anyone doubt Beijing\u2019s willingness to use coercive, often brutal methods to impose its will on the masses?\u201d Mosher asks. \u201cDoes anyone doubt that, if Chinese women don\u2019t voluntarily produce enough workers for the high-tech industrial future that Xi has envisioned, that he would hesitate to order that childbearing be made mandatory?\u201d<\/p>\n

Mosher envisions Chinese president Xi Jinping handing down a directive to use \u201cwhatever means you must to increase the birthrate.\u201d He told LifeSiteNews reporters last week that “forced pregnancy” may be looming on China’s horizon.<\/p>\n

Communist China\u2019s draconian population control policies are part of a long record of human rights abuse<\/a> highlighted by many humanitarian observers. Other offenses include comprehensive spying<\/a> on the regime\u2019s citizens, suppressing Christianity<\/a>including bans of online Bible sales, harvesting organs<\/a> from prisoners, using slave labor, holding political prisoners<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at Life Site News<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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