a shameful waste of madhouse time » parents http://peijinchen.com/blog ponderings of a pococurante Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:20:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 40 million Cantonese speakers that were never born; no single moms allowed http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/06/18/40-million-cantonese-speakers-that-were-never-born-no-single-moms-allowed/ http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/06/18/40-million-cantonese-speakers-that-were-never-born-no-single-moms-allowed/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:00:07 +0000 peijin http://peijinchen.com/blog/2008/06/18/40-million-cantonese-speakers-that-were-never-born-no-single-moms-allowed/ Continue reading →]]>

Saw this on vip.bokee.com–it says that unmarried women in Guangdong are not allowed to receive artificial insemination because the right to be a mother is tied to wedlock. Another factoid worth noting: in the ten years that they’ve been doing reproductive planning Guangdong province has “saved itself” an estimated 40 million people. That’s pretty darn amazing if you think about it, and regardless of whether or not you agree with the politics or ethics behind it. The numbers are just impressive, in the way that numbers from China are always kinda impressive or astounding.

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