In 1980, a new regime of Chinese leaders believed that to sustain an economically prosperous nation it was imperative that the population be tightly controlled. And so the now infamous one-child policy was created, which would impact the most intimate aspect of every Chinese citizen's life: their family. Over the past three decades this policy has been rigorously and severely enforced, while China's coercive tactics have unfortunately left behind a multitude of negative externalities, including; the denial of one of the most basic human rights of the individual, an ever-increasing manifestation of sexual discrimination and a disturbingly massive number of forced abortions. This ethical question stimulates a multitude of philosophical angles as discussed in The Problem of Forced Abortion in China and Related Ethical Issues by Jing-Bao Nie; which contrasts the views of Eastern and Western cultural traditions on this policy. The destructive consequences of the 33-year-old one-child policy have led many people around the world, philosophers and even myself to firmly believe that this policy is an entirely immoral form of population control. The concept behind the implementation of the policy is clear; when overpopulation occurs in a nation without the financial/natural resources available to support expansive growth rates, the result is an increase in overall poverty of all people throughout the nation. Therefore, the one-child policy is a measure intended to advance the common good, a utilitarian approach to increasing the nation's livelihood. In the Eastern tradition and here in Communist China, the rights and desires of individualists are sacrificed for the common good. As discussed in Jing-Bao Nie's article, Marxist philosophy... at the heart of the article... a gross violation of human rights in recent history, and I believe rightly so. Politics has created overwhelming questions that touch the very core of what it means to be human and the evolution of fundamental individualist rights. Consider the many couples who may long for more than one child, but have a duty to abandon the children they wish to welcome into their family, if only they had the choice. For these parents, economic growth and national prosperity are poor substitutes and an inadequate motivation for their heart's deepest desire for the components that truly matter in life. Regardless of Easter versus Western cultural traditions or opposing philosophical views, no law should cause a society's inherent moral compass to dissolve until its citizens are left with an empty, emotionless version of what humanity should behave in the eyes of a family..