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Bwright138 (talk | contribs) (Infanticide is not necessarily just "babies", it the killing is any of one's children regardless of age and desire for their death.) |
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| − | '''Infanticide''' is the practice of killing | + | '''Infanticide''' is the practice of killing one's own child. People in some times and places have killed babies simply for not being the right sex. China had a controversial population control policy which limited couples to one child;<ref>"The one-child policy, first adumbrated by Deng Xiaoping in a 1979 speech, was in place nationwide by 1981." [http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa75761.000/hfa75761_0.HTM] </ref> |
unauthorized pregnancies are forcibly aborted [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-noonan081601.shtml] | unauthorized pregnancies are forcibly aborted [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-noonan081601.shtml] | ||