The One Child Policy appears to have succeeded in one of its aims "a declining birth rate. ... Demographers estimate that about 100 million people in China have been raised as an only child. Due to this, there is a growing emergence of children with Little Emperor Syndrome (as the Chinese call it). ... The One Child Policy has pressured parents to abort, kill or abandon their only child if it is female. ... So far, one of the most encouraging impacts the One Child Policy has had is on the environment. ...

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As a consequence, the 'one-child policy', formerly called the 'family planning policy' was introduced. ... (See Appendix B) The situation is quite different in rural areas; families are eligible to have a second child if their first child is a daughter or suffers any kind of disability, albeit a second child is subject to birth spacing, which varies from 3 to 4 years. Permits to have a second child in the rural are do not apply if the family migrates to urban centers. ... Families that volunteer to have only one child are awarded a "Certificate of Honor for Single-Child ...

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If they do end up giving birth to unwanted child, it would lead to the problem of desertion or the mother neglecting the child and leading to its death. There are some women who have health problems that prevent them from being able to go through childbirth and for the reason that any form of birth control is not 100% effective, these women may at some point call for an abortion. ... However, if the child were to survive the birth, and not the mother, it would be forced to live a life without a mother. ... Suppose if just one of these women were to become with child, how can they be expected...

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This large population calls for restrictions. The Chinese government introduced a law that they called the one-child policy. The law allows a married couple whishing to have children to have only one child. ... The one-child policy causes a great deal of social problems. ... The one-child policy is an interference to China's culture. ...

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The sad thing though is that a lot of young girls these days take advantage of that and look to abortion as a method of "birth control" (if you can even call it that). ... There are also those who suffer from certain medical disorders and cannot deliver a child without endangering the child and/or themselves. ... One after another describe the horrors of knowing that a child, their child, was being savagely ripped apart inside of their womb, then vacuumed out and left on the edge of a sink to die. ... I too now believe that all un-born children should be given a chance to live and if the mot...

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Ovulation is what happens when a group of eggs form in small sacs called follicles and every month they will erupt. ... The eggs then moves to what you call the fallopian tube. ... Slowly it will make its way through the fallopian tube to the uterus which is called implantation. ... Now the question that is brought up is what if it is a child produced by rape? I feel a though you should give the child a chance and if you do not want the responsibility then give it to a family that does and either cant or wants to help a child with adoption. ...

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To ensure that no fragments of tissue remain, a spoon-tipped metal instrument called a curette may be then used to scrape the uterine lining. ... Pregnancies in the earlier part of the second trimester may be terminated by a special suction curettage, sometimes combined with forceps, in a procedure called dilation and evacuation. ... There are also many teenagers that say that they do not have the money or cannot afford to bring a child into the world. So the best option for them in that case is to abort the child and get their life stable. ... The fact of having a child or carrying a chil...

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D, quotes "How can you call yourself a loving Christian if you would force a victim of a violent rape to give birth to a rapist's child (http://nichole.simonweb.com)?" Who would want to tell their child who their real father was when in reality that child was conceived during a gruesome, heartless act of rape. ... In the case of a divorce, the child is still able to see his or her real father, whereas in the case of a rape the child's father would be the rapist. This would mean that the child would never experience their real father and the mother would always have the horrible m...

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One, there might be something very wrong with the child and the child might be better off never being born than being born and having a life with many serious problems. ... Having a child of someone who raped you could have great emotional stress on some people. ... The pro's to pro-life and the cons to pro-choice are as follows: You are sparring a life of an unborn child, the child could be adopted by a family that wants a child, and you don't sell a child short of any potential he or she had by aborting it. The con's to pro-life and the pro's to pro-choice are a...

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The people that are for abortion are called the Pro-Choice group. ... If a mother is carrying a child and the child's birth has a chance of killing or hurting the mother then the option to abort is a good possibility. ... Another reason for abortion is if a woman is raped and is carrying and unwanted child then she has the choice of going through the birthing process or she can abort the child. ... If a child is conceived then they should be allowed to at least attempt to live. ... The only thing against this argument is that the child may or may not be considered a living human yet. ...

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This child and many other children have been murdered by an operation called abortion. ... If a person killed a child not yet subjected to puberty he or she would still stand trial for murder. ... This shows that adoption is better than abortion for the child. ... There are other choices that are more appropriate and less morbid for both the mother and the child, adoption for example. The operation causes unnecessary anguish for both the child and the mother. ...

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This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an innocent child's heart. ... They believe abortion is saving the child from abuse. Abortion, however, is the most severe case of child abuse. ... The procedure is called a suction aspiration. ...

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Abortion is unfair to the unborn child. ... Abortion strips a child from all those experiences and rights. ... No term can precisely express the heartbreak that abortion causes, some call it Post-Abortion Trauma. ... If a mother chooses to abort her unborn child is it right? ... Most importantly, is it fair to the unborn child? ...

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Pro-life activists believe that every child conceived should be born. ... In addition, it is one of those topics that when debated, both sides have good very points on the overall issue, but more than likely neither side will ever agree upon the other"s view.Personally, I agree with the pro-life activist as well as the pro-choice activist because on one hand I believe no one should get rid of baby not even a so called "potential-baby". ... Also, I do believe that when a "child" gets pregnant they too should be able to make the choice in abortion because I believe a child has no business havin...

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They believe it is against their religion to kill a child that has not been born yet. ... Anti-abortion advocates, however, feel the legal rights of the unborn child outweigh the legal rights of the pregnant woman. ... Early in Canadian history, all abortions were illegal but they passed a bill called R.V. ... The thought of being responsible for carrying, giving birth to, and raising a child that resulted from the rape can be much too overwhelming that's why some people take the easy way out by aborting. ... An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscar...

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In the mid-1980's, leaders of the anti abortion movement produced a video called the "The Silent Scream." ... Originally designed to frighten women who turned to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" for assistance with their problem pregnancies. ... She damaged her own body but could not self-abort her child. ... The child died only five and a half months into her life. Beth Armstrong strongly believes that if she was to get pregnant again, and the child was undeveloped she would want to abort the child before it can come to full term. ...

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It is for this reason that the fight for the pre-born child is often referred to as a war in relation to numbers. ... Some people may say that the unborn, commonly called fetuses, are not alive, but that is not true. ... A child is a unique human being and receives a genetic code all of its own upon the time of conception. ... Different types of abortion include seizing body parts and ripping them off of the child and crushing the skull or snapping the spine in or to remove the child. ... Parents are responsible for the well being of their children, by virtue of having created the child need...

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Will the pain and suffering of the actual abortion outweigh the pleasure of killing your unborn child? Will you live without regret or guilt of killing that child? ... Abortion is the killing of an unborn child. ... These are called partial-birth abortions. ... Now when we think of abortion do we still believe that it is morally justified to kill an unborn child. ...

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Why hamper a child's" well being by not giving that child all the nurturing it deserves. ... When the child is sick she must stay up all night. Where is the father of this child? ... Ellis effectively uses emotion to call her audience to action. ... Why should women be force to have a child that she does not want? ...

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They believe that the child inside them is their property and its life doesn't be until birth. ... Pope John Paul "condemned abortion as a crime urging Roman Catholics to fight what he called an abominable crime and the shame of humanity." ... It is unfair to punish a child for their mother's mistakes or the mother's lack of thought in whether or not it is the "convenient" time in her life to bring up the child - what about the child's life? ... There are many alternatives to abortion including adoption, surrogacy or even bringing up the child. The effects of abortion can ...

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Meanwhile, some new they were financially unable to provide for a second child. ... " The one-child policy rule is blamed to have created the gender imbalance due to families preferring males over females as their first and only child, eventually making it impossible for reproduction. ... " The quote goes to show that many of China's citizens would love to have more kids but on top of the one-child policy, Beijing is making it impossible to provide for more than one child. ... The pain of losing a child is life long. ... Women should not have to be forced to abort a child that...

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The bill was declared unconstitutional in Supreme Court in 2000 as the partial birth procedure defines that the doctor partially delivers virginally a living unborn child before killing the child. Though it seems in momentary defeat many pro-choice supporters see is as a wake up call to other pro-choice Americans that they need a " call to arms" or else Congress is going to take away women's right to choose. ...

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Also, if she was still at school and did not have a job she might not have enough money to support her and the child both, as a child would need an education when he or she gets older which would cost more money. Another argument for abortion is that legalising this operation has eliminated many illegal abortions performed by unskilled so-called doctors under unsanitary conditions. ... Moreover they claim that even if a child is conceived in rape killing him/her is wrong. They argue that the child is absolutely innocent of the crime of the father. Furthermore there is always the option...

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The fetus grows into a baby, a child, and an old man, aided by time, nutrition, and a suitable environment. ... There is nothing more pitiable that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted baby an unwanted baby becoming an unwanted child, then an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus, even more defenseless than a newborn baby just because it may grow into an unwanted child? ... Killing in any form is not the sol...

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The fetus grows into a baby, a child, and an old man, aided by time, nutrition, and a suitable environment. ... There is nothing more pitiable that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted baby an unwanted baby becoming an unwanted child, then an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus, even more defenseless than a newborn baby just because it may grow into an unwanted child? ... Killing in any form is not the sol...

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