Topic: Population Control
Thesis: Is it ethical for an assembly to take precautions to control increased population growths?
- One Child Policy (China)
- Illegal forced abortions/ sterilizations
- Deciding who can have a child
- Over population causes economic/social consequences
- “Hum do, hamare do” (India)
- One family, two children
- Government incentives for sterilization
- Family Planning (Iran)
- Mandatory contraceptive courses required for male and female
- Emphasized benefits for small families
- 2014 advertising birth control/ permanent contraception are outlawed
- Stop at Two (Singapore)
- Eugenics policies
- Anti-natalist
- Pro-natalist
- Public Health Service Act Title X/ Affordable Health Care Act (United States)
- Priority services to low-income
- Plan pregnancies/ prevent abortions
- Medicaid services for family planning
- Compulsory sterilization ( Uzbekistan)
- Forced sterilization on woman with two or three children
- Controlling birth rates
- Doctors are to meet a quota for women they sterilize
- Only women are subjected to sterilization
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Sources used for outline information:
- http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Population_control.html
- http://www.worldwatch.org/nine-population-strategies-stop-short-9-billion
- http://restud.oxfordjournals.org/content/76/3/1149.short