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_refugee_  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: China ends one-child policy after 35 years

Up Next: China Attempts to Figure Out How to Become More Like Japan

(this is probably a really bad joke about Japan's birth rate and how the population is declining there)

    “The state has no business regulating how many children people have,” said William Nee, a Hong Kong-based activist for Amnesty International.

Be that one, a dozen, or zero - hint hint, U.S.





bioemerl  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The US doesn't regulate how many children people can have, no?

tacocat  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's a poorly constructed statement about abortion.

user-inactivated  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  
bioemerl  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is that the US government or just some idiots in the US?

user-inactivated  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Idiots. But they vote, and there is a large number of them.

_refugee_  ·  3343 days ago  ·  link  ·  

tacocat's comment is 100% right in every way.