Topic: Population Control

Thesis: Is it ethical for an assembly to take precautions to control increased population growths?

• One Child Policy (China)

1. Illegal forced abortions/ sterilizations
2. Deciding who can have a child
3. Over population causes economic/social consequences

• Hum do, hamare do (India)

1. One family, two children
2. Government incentives for sterilization

• Family Planning (Iran)

1. Mandatory contraceptive courses required for male and female
2. Emphasized benefits for small families
3. 2014 advertising birth control/ permanent contraception are outlawed

• Stop at Two (Singapore)

1. Eugenics policies
2. Anti-natalist
3. Pro-natalist

• Public Health Service Act Title X/ Affordable Health Care Act (United States)

1. Priority services to low-income
2. Plan pregnancies/ prevent abortions
3. Medicaid services for family planning

• Compulsory sterilization ( Uzbekistan)

1. Forced sterilization on woman with two or three children
2. Controlling birth rates
3. Doctors are to meet a quota for women they sterilize
4. Only women are subjected to sterilization

Sources used for outline information:

• http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Population_control.html
• http://www.worldwatch.org/nine-population-strategies-stop-short-9-billion
• http://restud.oxfordjournals.org/content/76/3/1149.short