Population Control
...w to go about getting the contraceptives, and so they have no major way of stopping pregnancies. When women are educated in different family planning ways, family size decreases. A former government economist, Mechai Viravaidya, did Thailand’s first efforts of population control in 1974. Today, some 70 % of Thailand couples practice family planning. Mechai estimates that without his program Thailand’s 54 million would be at a near 64 million people. Mechai hands out condoms, opened birth control supermarkets and clinics, and on the King’s birthday offers free vasectomies. China now restricts their citizens to having one-child per family. This has caused citizens to go against their religion and use birth control. Due to many Chinese not wanting to follow the policies officials have abused, beaten, and even burnt civilians accused of hiding children. The head of a ‘planned-birth’ office in China even or...