Chairman Mao Zedong famously opposed suggestions that Beijing restrict population growth, saying, “The more people there are, the stronger we are.”
Three years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping—the man behind China's economic development—enacted the one-child policy against his predecessor's wishes. Today, more and more Chinese seem to agree with Mao.
Photos of a Chinese mother whom local officials forced to abort after seven months of pregnancy in June are still circulating widely on the Internet, fueling debate on the merits of the policy.
Feng Jianmei, age twenty-three, failed to pay a $6,300 fine to family-planning officials in northwestern Shaanxi province in order to have a second child. Gruesome images of Feng lying beside her aborted fetus are still circulating widely on Chinese social-media site Sina Weibo.
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