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China loosens one-child policy due to earthquake toll.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
Chinese officials announced on May 26 that owing to the massive devastation caused by the May 12 earthquake, the communist regime's harsh family planning policy of only one child per family would allow exemptions for those parents whose only child was killed or severely injured by the quake. Launched in the 1970s, the one-child law initiated a systematic program of forced abortion, forced sterilization, ...
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