Right. So I was wrong about Diane Francis, very, very wrong. Far be it from me to not admit when I’ve made a mistake. I said she wasn’t an idiot, but in this interview with Laura Ingraham she displays a good dose of idiocy with a splash of just plain ole’ sad.
By the way, I do love Laura. This interview doesn’t show it, but she’s actually a very funny talk show host. And funny, non-shrill women in the public arena truly are a gift.
by 
Diane Francis has two children herself.
I am absolutely disgusted with her views and with the fact that the Financial Post would publish something so opposite human rights.
Her column is getting a lot of attention and is always accompanied by that descriptor: “Canadian”. Well, her own website says she was born and raised in Chicago, so maybe they should start describing her as from Chicago.
Go Laura! She really shone in this interview. I can’t believe that someone would actually think that adopting a policy like China’s is a good idea. There is going to be politicial and societal instability in that country in a very short time. Population control may be good for the whole climate changeg thing – I doubt it – but it is bad for societies, because it flies in the face of mankind’s purpose on this planet. Unfortunately, this idea is gaining in popularity, and was even the topic of a lesson in my daughter’s high school geography class in a Catholic school. Sheesh.
I’d like to know what countries Ms. Francis is referring to when she insists that there are countries in the world that are encouraging women to be “breeders”. Where did she get that information from?
As a mother of five, I take great offense to this line of thinking. I don’t know what I would have done if the government had told me that I could only have one child. Probably moved to a country where “breeding” (shudder) is encouraged, or at the very least, supported.
Diane Francis is ugly on the inside.
Sounds like Diane has internalized the gay “breeder” talk—down with hetero-normativity! et al.
Seriously. In China, there are neighborhood commitees that track all the menstrual cycles of the women in the neighborhood. And if a woman wants a baby, she has to apply for a permit first. They are hard to come by, and some committees who want to shine in the eyes of the party won’t give them out. If she is lucky in winning the lottery, and doesn’t conceive within the year, well her chance is over, and nobody gets an extention. And if she has an illegal baby, she is forced to have an abortion. Even if they don’t catch her until she’s in labour. And if she does have more than one child, both parents lose their house, their jobs, the eductional priviledges for both children, and have to pay a HUGE fine that puts them in debt for years, except they can never pay it back because they are not allowed to have a job.
All because Diane F wants to make sure other folks can’t live as nicely as she does. And even though she pats the Chinese on the back, I’m sure she doesn’t want to share with them either.
Well she may be in for a surprize. The male-female demographic is so off-skewed that the only people likely to get neutered are Diane’s kids when all those Chinese males who can’t find wives decide to burn off the testosterone by making sure that THEY are the ones with the cars, nice houses and big screen TV’s.
As for Diane, she is likely to get euthanised before it all comes to fruition. Maybe because her kids want her nice house, and car, and all the other stuff she thinks she can take with her.
As for the rest of us, may the Lord keep us and protect us from the politically correct!
Did you people watch the same interview I just did?!
Please show me where *precisely* during the interview Francis promoted anything along the lines of what China has going on? In fact, she plainly said that she does *not* agree with how China is doing things. Rather, what Francis was getting at was the notion of population control. Now I don’t agree with this but if you’re going to say something then at least get your facts straight.
Plus, Laura Ingraham? Really? She came across as an ignorant American conservative (oh, wait…this *was* on Fox News right?!) and frankly seemed totally rude. If you’re going to interview someone and ask them questions at least do them the courtesy of allowing them to answer and *don’t* speak over the top of them in a mocking manner characterizing what you *think* they are saying. I haven’t read the article Francis wrote, but no where in the video interview did she promote abortion to “save the planet”. What a goof.
JT–Francis advocated for China’s One Child Policy in her article. Check it out:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=342e1874-cf39-4c23-b5e5-1e684033817a
“A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.”
OMG…. what a frightening lady Diane Francis is.
I just watched this and I can’t believe it. Diane Francis has totally lost it.
Diane Francis reminds me of “Cruella de Ville”. I’m going to have nightmares tonight!
The United nations is incapable of stopping people from butchering one another.
How does Diane expect to stop men in developing nations from having sex with their wives whenever they feel like it.
Since most of those women have very few “rights ‘ if any.
Rape in continental Africa is rampant, since the rule of law barely exists.
Does she actually think that people who still hold onto 7th century customs, can turn to
birth control . And what of the preference for male children in most of those cultures.
Even highly educated people in India sometimes prefer a boy over a girl.
Raji in her bio mentions this superstition:
“In India, a married friend had an abortion because the child was conceived in what is called an “inauspicious month”— this might bring bad luck to the child, and indirectly to the family.”
Let alone, the only way to control world population is with a world government.
of course, a “planetary law” requires a “planetary government” with a “planetary police force” funded by “planetary taxation”. Eventually it will require a “planetary military force” as well. How else will people be sterilized after one birth. Forced by gunpoint to a clinic of course, no doubt in time, the earth will be filled with the secret graves of millions of baby girls.
I can see Diane has thought ought all the complexities of the hundreds of cultures worldwide. Utopian fantasies where the only way things could work the way Diane thinks would mean evil does not exist, like corrupt dictators, and power hungry rulers.
It’s an offense to any thinking persons intelligence.
It’s as Thomas Sowell aptly describes in “A Conflict of Visions”. Us common sense people understand that human nature is “fixed and flawed, Diane is the progressive elitist who thinks human nature can be perfected with rational planning for social solutions.