China Wants More Babies. Many Women Are Saying No.
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 2014, a Chinese woman named Jong was pregnant with her second child. |
| 0:10.0 | She's asked us not to use her first name. Her pregnancy was a problem, because China was still under its one-child policy. |
| 0:18.0 | Jiang tried to keep her pregnancy under wraps. |
| 0:23.0 | She was worried she'd be pressured to have an abortion, |
| 0:26.0 | because over the decades that the one child policy had been in place, |
| 0:29.0 | there were reports of forced abortions. |
| 0:32.0 | After John gave birth, she tried to hide her baby. reports of forced abortions. |
| 0:32.6 | After John gave birth, she tried to hide her baby. |
| 0:35.8 | But authorities found out, and they find her and her husband roughly $10,000. |
| 0:41.9 | And the repercussions didn't end there. |
| 0:44.0 | Jong was forced to have an IUD |
| 0:46.3 | implant to prevent future pregnancies, |
| 0:48.6 | and authorities required her to get a check up every three months. |
| 0:52.4 | But just months later, in 2015 required her to get a check up every three months. |
| 0:53.0 | But just months later, in 2015, |
| 0:55.8 | the Chinese government did a full 180. |
| 0:58.7 | And China could be set this morning for a demographic boom. |
| 1:02.1 | The world's most populous country is dumping |
| 1:04.4 | its long-standing one-child policy. At first, families were allowed to have |
| 1:11.8 | two children, then three, and fines like the one given to |
| 1:16.0 | Jong have disappeared. Instead, the Chinese government is paying families to have children. |
| 1:21.6 | Now, women like |
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