> Though female infanticide, forced abortions, and gender-based abortions were made illegal, they still happened in rural or poorer urban areas where there was less scrutiny from the central government.

From the subthread under [0]:

"Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it's policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people."

It's a good point. Makes me wonder how much the negative opinion about China's one-child policy is just overblown and/or pure propaganda.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470733