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In reply to the discussion: Personally I think China's 1 Child Policy to be socially responsible policy [View all]apocalypsehow
(12,751 posts)be implemented world-wide:
1. Mandatory abortions performed upon women who are impregnated after already having had one child.
2. Mandatory sterilization of the men who do said impregnating.
3. A combination of both.
That's going to be a tough sell in countries that respect reproductive autonomy and the right of men and women to control their own sexual behavior within the bounds of mutual consent.
The better idea is actually three-fold:
1. Provide wide-spread access to birth control along with education on how to use it.
2. Continue to strive for gender equity worldwide - societies that strive and have achieved some degree of equality between men and women have lower birthrates for all sorts of reasons, and is the right thing to be working toward in any event.
3. Don't have kids yourself.