"One Child Nation"

This very difficult to watch documentary should be required for anyone concerned about China, abortion or women.  Focused on the past it has amazing repercussions for today given that the actions of the Chinese government in their "one child" era are supposedly being recreated in the plentiful workcamps with forced sterilization again becoming routine for Uyghers, Chinese Muslims and others from the western provinces.  

It haunts.  The women who were sterilized, the doctors who performed the surgeries, the artist who found, quite by accident, the bodies of aborted children in a trash yard.  Seeing this, after being in the country for nearly a month, I have a deeper understanding of the reluctance of couples, mostly free of the one-child rule, to have additional children.  I have a greater insight into the attitudes of gender in a country where male dominance is still very visceral.  That the film exists at all is a miracle given that current leadership has been in a years-long crackdown on any kind of dissent in their positivity campaigns.  

It's not easy material, but I do feel it is the kind of thing we need to know.  We need to look in the dark corners and bring light to the atrocities which exist in our modern world.