Reply #19: Not half as contemptible [View All]

[wickerwoman]

as the Catholic church's stance on birth control in developing countries.

Curtailment of reproductive freedoms is unfortunate and ethically questionable.

Recklessly encouraging the birth of hundreds of thousands of babies who will lead miserable lives and ultimately starve to death because "God will provide" is contemptible.

Spend five minutes walking down a street in Shanghai and then spend five minutes walking down a street in New Dehli. Notice the difference? I'll give you a hint. No skeleton children fighting wild dogs for garbage.

The one child policy lifted literally tens of millions of people out of a species of grinding poverty you can't even imagine.

I don't support forced sterilization, but I wouldn't characterize as "contemptible" a policy that has done an incredibly amount of good for most Chinese people.