This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most dreadful public policies in recent memory

China’s One-Child Policy Is Stark Reminder That Collectivism Is Evil

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most dreadful public policies in recent memory: communist China’s one-child policy.

Fortunately, a new documentary, “One Child Nation,” is shining a much-needed light on the darkness that has shrouded this horrific program since its inception four decades ago.

In summary, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the one-child policy in 1979 in an attempt to boost the standard of living by artificially restricting the country’s rapidly rising population.

For decades, this policy was strictly enforced, especially in urban areas. Those who resisted were dealt with in excruciatingly brutal ways. In the first few years, families caught with more than one child paid extremely high fines, had property confiscated, or their homes literally demolished by the CCP’s village and provincial officials. The party also dispersed an army of “family planners” to ensure the policy was properly enforced.

Women who longed for more than one child were routinely implanted with contraceptive intrauterine devices after they bore their first child. If these women had the audacity to remove these devices and bear a second child, forced sterilizations were regularly performed.

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