population control - debate

Pros:

According to other developed countries then Korea, many of them came out not successful. For example, it is very wide known that China had this one child policy which let couples only have 1 child to control the population and prevent problems from population. However according to New York times, this plan that was held for 30 years came out unsuccessful. Also according to Economist's recent articles, it said that if one breaks that law, their child are sent to other countries and they are paid 3000$~$5000. As we can see in this, the population control actually brought more problems.



Cons:

People will have babies illegally. In China, they have one child policy so if they go against law, they have to pay huge fine or the babies are separated from their parents. Many people think this will help reduce population of Chinese, but actually a little bit very slowly (NYT) because many people are finding having babies illegally better. According to a site named pubmed central, ratio of legal abortions to birth increased in the 1980s. People who wants to have a baby will have it from every way possible and if one doesn't want a baby, they won't have a baby even before this policy is made. There are many cases where Chinese goes to another country, has a baby and make them another country's citizen. This kind of situation doesn't decrease the population a lot.

That is invading freedom of choice. Whether to have a baby or not is individual's choice. If they have enough monetary resources, there is high percentage that they will have a baby. Also, they will think about the problems it can be made. But just saying no babies, that is against human right and also invading freedom.