China bans crude birth control slogans

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BEIJING - China's top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country's strict population limits, state media said Sunday.

Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,' have been forbidden and a list of 190 acceptable slogans issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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China's 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl.

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The Chinese government contends that the one-child policy has helped prevent at least 300 million births — about the size of the U.S. population — and aided China's recent, rapid economic development.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070805/ap_on_...ne_child_policy

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BEIJING - China's top family planning agency has cracked down on crude and insensitive slogans used by rural authorities to enforce the country's strict population limits, state media said Sunday.

Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,' have been forbidden and a list of 190 acceptable slogans issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

...

China's 28-year-old family planning policy limits most urban couples to just one child and allows some families in the countryside to have a second child if their first is a girl.

...

The Chinese government contends that the one-child policy has helped prevent at least 300 million births — about the size of the U.S. population — and aided China's recent, rapid economic development.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070805/ap_on_...ne_child_policy

The second banned slogan is a little disturbing.

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The second banned slogan is a little disturbing.

What does it even mean? How does one more baby mean one more tomb?

They don't kill babies as far as I know.

How about:

"One more baby - less rice for the rest of us"

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less rice.. hehe

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Slogans such as 'Raise fewer babies but more piggies,' and 'One more baby means one more tomb,'

colorful slogans

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The second banned slogan is a little disturbing.

What does it even mean? How does one more baby mean one more tomb?

They don't kill babies as far as I know.

It is "open secret" that China enforces these laws with forced abortion (and fine and/or imprisonment in labour camp added on to that--the latter certainly CAN send the parents to tombs).

How about:

"One more baby - less rice for the rest of us"