SEOUL: South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday ordered the country's decades-old abortion ban to be lifted in a landmark ruling over a law that campaigners say puts women at risk.
"Embryos completely depend on the mother's body for their survival and development, so it cannot be concluded that they are separate, independent living beings entitled to rights to life." The 1953 law had been widely flouted and rarely resulted in prosecutions, but activists had claimed it left women facing being unable to pay for terminations, unsafe procedures and social ostracisation.
Seven years later and an opinion poll on Wednesday showed 58 per cent of the public are in favour of abolishing the law. Women with disabilities, on the other hand, are often forced to undergo abortion against their will by family members - which, according to disability rights campaigners, demonstrates the country's selective views about which lives matter.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
didn't know Korea got ban abortion ..... it should be more to educate people than have laws to a total ban .
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