Questioning China's Family Planning: Are There Limits To Personal Comfort?
United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The director of China's family planning department says China's planned-birth policy has prevented 400 million births in the past 30 years.Questions to ponder: Should there ever be government imposed limits (on anything, but especially related to births) to ensure personal and societal comfort levels? If so, do birth limits cross the line? How do these types of limits relate to personal choices in limiting or managing births through methods such as the b.c. pill and abortion (i.e. are there any ethical concerns with the act of limiting the births or is it simply a matter of who is doing the choosing)? Are these latter options "OK" in any circumstance as long as they are individually adopted? If so, is there something of a double-standard involved or are they separate issues? For Christians, is there a consistent biblical stance that should be adopted?
In an interview posted on China's central government Web site, Zhang Weiqing said Tuesday that it took China about three decades to achieve the population control target that was realized by developed countries in more than 100 years, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
'The goal of ensuring Chinese people a relatively comfortable life would not be achieved if we had 400 million more people,' said Zhang, the director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission."
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 3/22/2006 09:40:00 AM
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