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> How can we claim this policy has no effect if clearly people are still killing female infants?

Strong statement. Evidence please.




It was both killing newborn infant girls, especially where there was no ultrasound, and intentional miscarriages of girls when the ultrasound was used (which is why ultrasound is illegal in some parts of China).

Both are well documented and account for the 30M extra males than females (Can’t hide this cultural bias).


Abortion is not the same thing as killing infants. The racism that's tolerated on this site is very telling.


In this case, we have evidence of a whole lot of abortion of female fetuses.. and less, but still a notable amount, of infanticide: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/01/08/c...

Note that there was a big shift in the gender ratio before sex determination by ultrasound was widely available in rural China.


For some people killing a foetus is the same as killing an infant. Please respect different opinion on a subject that has no definitive answer. Calling people racist as soon as you disagree is indeed very telling.


The anti-Chinese racism on this site is fairly evident on anything having to do with China. dang even had to tell people to tone down the rhetoric recently. This is just another case in point. Just because you’re not aware of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.


While I agree that abortion isn't killing infants, I don't get the racist part about this.


The racist part is the simple unchallenged assertion that Chinese people are so inhuman as to kill their infant children en masse.


They indisputably did, though. No fact can be racist.

Not because they're inhuman, of course; that sort of behavior has happened all throughout human history. It's just that, with China in the 20th century, the scale was huge.


Source on mass infanticide - not abortion - please.




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