Beating the System: Getting Around China's One-Child Policy

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For 30 years, China's government has controlled its country's population by limiting the number of births a woman can have.

The general rule is one couple, one child (with a few small exceptions), but what happens in the instance of multiple births?

Many Chinese families have been taking advantage of this loophole for years, and because of this, the number of twins, triplets and quadruplets is higher than average in some provinces.

How do they do it? By taking fertility drugs, of course. Clomid, the drug used to stimulate ovulation in women with female infertility factors, is being used in China by healthy, fertile women in order to have multiple births.

Experts say that this practice is putting mothers and babies at risk, but it doesn't seem like things are going to change there any time soon...

To learn more about this shocking story, read the full article here: Infertility Drugs Help Bypass China's One-Child Policy