A South Korean vlogger who claimed to have terminated her pregnancy at 36 weeks is being investigated for murder in a case that’s prompted horror in South Korea and raised urgent questions about why the country has no abortion laws.
Seoul National Police began investigating the woman in July at the request of the South Korean government, after she posted a video to YouTube purportedly documenting her experience of getting an abortion, police told CNN. Abortions past 24 weeks are banned in many jurisdictions, or reserved for very exceptional cases, such as fetal anomalies or when the mother’s health is at risk.
5 can plunge countries into a trap where low fertility drives population aging and economic stagnation – further deterring childbearing and driving the fertility rate lower. It is impossible to know the true number of abortions that take place each year in South Korea because the procedure is unregulated. There’s no reliable historical comparison because back when abortion was still a crime, patients would pay hospitals in cash so there was no official record, said Nayoung, from SHARE.
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