BEIJING, Aug 5 (AP): China's top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country's strict population limits, state media said Sunday.
Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,' have been forbidden and a list of 190 acceptable slogans issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
China's 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl. Critics say it has led to forced abortions, sterilisation and a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio due to a traditional preference for male heirs, which has prompted countless families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys.
The Chinese government contends that the one-child policy has helped prevent at least 300 million births - about the size of the US population - and aided China's recent, rapid economic development.
China bans crude birth control slogans
FE Team | Published: August 06, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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