Maggie Gallagher: Rights Activists Ignore China’s One-Birth Policy
Maggie Gallagher has this article on Townhall:
. . . But to me the most shocking reminder of how horrifying the Chinese government remains lies latent in this week’s headlines: “One-Child Policy Has Exceptions After China Quake,” as the Associated Press wrote.
Families with only one child killed in the earthquake “can obtain a certificate to have another child, the Chengdu Population and Family Planning Committee in the capital of hard-hit Sichuan province said.”
The government will give you a certificate so you can have another child? How big of them . . .
How does this “policy” work? One woman, a Muslim ethnic Uzbek in China named Mahire Omerjan, testified to the Laogai Research Foundation what it was like to “illegally” conceive her second child in the 1990s . . .