I know of the China's one child policy and I have heard of horrible stories about it before. Based on a strong dedication for economic growth and population control, Chinese government implemented this strict policy around 30 years ago. One issue in this country was the sense of birth control was really weak. Married couples did not utilize any methods for birth control. Usually what happened was that pregnant women who already had one child were forced to abort the unborn child. In many instances, the aborted were already human being like and they were simply dead because of the interruptions.
Morally, once a child is conceived, it should be defined as a human being. Murdering a conceived cell is essentially not much different from murdering an adult. There should no be no reason to differentiate the killing of a conceived baby with no awareness from killing an adult. Just because a baby doesn't have awareness doesn't mean it is not a human being.
There are many arguments the birth interruptions are for economic reasons and for everyone else to have higher standard of life. However, procedures should be taken to prevent the process from beginning rather than to kill a conceived baby.
I think that the one child policy (it is actually 2 children if in rural areas) is very interesting. I have learned a lot about it in the past and have watched documentaries that evidently show the citizens understand the importance of the policy for there country. The problem is not the governments implementation of the policy (although the pope would disagree because of the intent to limit reproduction) but with the way the policy has been carried out as you mentioned. The citizens of child have not only been aborting babies but there have even been accounts of live babies being left to die. I think that this problem is one of the social construction of birth control. If the use of birth control was more widely implemented in China they would have less of an issue with abortion. Another problem is the gender roles and the other cultural implications of this. Gender roles cause people to avoid having girls as there one child and therefore have late term abortions when they find out the sex. If the role of men and women were equivalent in society these late term abortions might be less prevalent.
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