Steven W. Mosher

In the following viewpoint, social scientist Steven W. Mosher describes China’s population control policy, in which each family is permitted to have only one child. After the first child is born, says Mosher, women are forced onto birth control; abortions are forced on couples who attempt to have a second child; and parents with two children are involuntarily sterilized. The author contends that China’s population control program is a gross violation of privacy and reproductive freedom. He believes that the one-child policy, and the way it is enforced, is reason enough for the Chinese people to rebel against their communist government. Steven W. Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, and has written several books about China, including A Mother...