CNBC's Debate Moderator On China's Brutal One-Child Policy: "It Worked"

Breitbart.com reports: CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla, one of the moderators of this week’s GOP debate, offered some insight into China’s notorious one-child policy Thursday. Quintanilla published a graph of China’s declining birth rate in the 1990s and wrote, “One thing about China’s one-child policy: it worked.” Quintanilla may not have been endorsing the one-child policy, but he didn’t offer any overt or even implied criticism of it either. In fact, saying “it worked” sounds a lot like he is suggesting it was a success. The problem, of course, is that the one-child policy, which China converted to a two-child policy this week, was a brutal, harrowing invasion of the human rights of millions of families under the guise of national policy. Since 1979, an estimated 13 million women a year underwent abortions, many of them forced to do so by government officials. Another 200 million women were sterilized under the same policy. These practices mostly went unseen and unnoticed in the era before social media and digital cameras. In 2012, the world got to see the result of this policy on one young woman when her family members posted an image of her lying next to her dead baby after she’d been forced to have an abortion...