Well, the OP never returned and those who were saying babies get killed in China never came back or offered any support for their assertions so I guess we can hijack the thread for the subject of the population explosion.
This is the way I see it. Only a very ignorant and stupid person will say this planet can sustain any number of people, no matter how large. I will not even bother discussing this topic with anyone defending that view. So, we shall agree there has to be a limit. We can disagree on where it is but we shall agree there is one. If you are the type who is comfortable living in a tiny apartment in Manhattan or Tokio your limit will probably be higher than if you prefer to live in the open country. In any case The entire world needs to come to an agreement on this.
To say everyone should have absolute freedom to keep on reproducing at will is suicide. Your action of making babies has repercussions on the rest of the world, and I do not mean only tour immediate world. I do not believe anyone has any right to unlimited reproduction for the simple reason that it is not viable. This is not my opinion. This is a fact. The human race cannot continue to multiply at this rate indefinitely.
Will some people be unhappy when they are strongly discouraged from having children? No doubt about it. Too bad. We live in a world that requires these things and the sooner we assume them, the better.
I will give you an example. The Philippines have a culture of having many children and yet they are unable to feed them. The rest of the world sends economic aid and absorbs their surplus of population in the form of imported cheap labor.
I would suggest the economic aid be linked to definite steps to get the country on a viable economic culture and stop this crazy demographic explosion. Is that contrary to their culture? Probably. But they are part of the world and their problems affect us. They sould not expect us to keep sending help while absorbing the population they cannot feed.
If they want to retain this culture of big families and poverty, I say fine, but don’t come to us looking for help. You are on your own. You should not ask other cultures to pay the price of your own ineptitude.
Cultures need to change and adapt to the times. What was true 100 years ago is no longer true today. Western culture has assumed concepts like recycling and conservation. What is wrong with expecting other cultures to do the same?
I take it for granted that sooner or later there will be a worldwide policy of population maintenance. Probably with education and a good standard of living this will not be a problem. Most of the developed world already has a very low birth rate. But the urge to reproduce is quite strong (especially in women) and it is possible that some type of incentives must be instituted that would discourage having children.
I see nothing wrong with this. What I object to is some bureaucrat in Beijing telling me how many children I can have. But I see no reason why a democratic society cannot discourage me from having children if it considers too many children would place an unwelcome burden on the rest of us who are already here.
I also have no objection whatsoever to developed countries exerting their influence over less developed countries. We use our commerce to put pressure on China to improve their human rights record because we believe this is a good thing for us and for them. I think we should also use the same kind of pressure to encourage certain countries to lower their demographic increase. They are free to reject the suggestion but they should not expect us to keep feeding the children they make and cannot feed themselves.
Anyway, it’s just my humble opinion.