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Re:China to begin two-child policy by kailuowang on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:37AM (#10471300)
Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms. The law never suggested such enforcement. The law is that you get a financial fine if you have more than one child, that's it. It's actually against the law to force any kind of abortion. That being said, in some rural area, some officials maybe so greedy to make achievement for their "career" that they "enforce" this policy by breaking the law.

Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it's policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by moistgorilla on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:16AM (#10471672)
> Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms

Back up your statement with a citation please. Considering that they explicitly made forced abortions of these kinds illegal (although this is hardly enforced) implies that it was a big enough problem the government needed to step in.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by TeMPOraL on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:00PM (#10474669)
> Considering that they explicitly made forced abortions of these kinds illegal (although this is hardly enforced) implies that it was a big enough problem the government needed to step in.

The officials are not dumb, they probably saw the incentives structure and decided to ban this proactively.

GP has a good point. Singular events in few decades in a population of over a billion? That's either bullshit or random fluke, depending on how charitable you want to be towards the report, but it's definitely not something a reasonable person should care about.

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by vectorjohn on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:22PM (#10474409)
His source is the same as yours, if you read your own source.
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Re:China to begin two-child policy by pjungwir on Thursday October 29, 2015 @11:30AM (#10471791)
> in some rural area

I spent a summer in Beijing in 1998 and knew a young lady whose unborn baby was forcibly killed. So I don't buy "in some rural area".

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Re:China to begin two-child policy by haukilup on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:55AM (#10471460)
This was a lot more common in many rural areas than your post is suggesting.
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Re:China to begin two-child policy by kailuowang on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:29PM (#10472735)
Source: (in chinese, please use Google Translation) http://www.21ccom.net/articles/zgyj/fzyj/article_20120629627...
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