Not content with donating a billion dollars to the United Nations, the Federalist reports Ted Turner recently proposed convening a global conference to consider adopting China’s one-child policy worldwide to slow population growth. For those unaware, in the late 1970s China adopted a policy of limiting families to one child and requiring prospective parents to obtain birth permits to have children.
Largely ignored in rural China, the main effect of the policy has been to encourage the abandonment of large numbers of children, mainly female. In some urban areas where the Chinese government had more control over women, it does seem to have led to forced abortions. Turner, however, insists any one-child policy must be “voluntary.”
Maybe he’s using the Chinese Communist Party’s dictionary!
Ironically while Turner was proposing that the world adopt China’s hideous policy, his wife, Jane Fonda, was speaking out against efforts by the U.S. government to reduce the level of illegitimate births in the United States. Fonda, who is a spokeswoman for “Truth for Youth” which promotes condom use on behalf of condom distributor Durex Consumer Products, was angry that the US government is planning to spend $50 million to promote abstinence prior to marriage.
As Fonda put it, “Most Americans don’t want it. Abstinence until marriage is based on an unreal world that isn’t out there.” Maybe she could get that message across to her husband while she’s at it.