The ban was rarely enforced until the last decade when the government cracked down on the procedure.
By Min Joo Kim Min Joo Kim Assistant Reporter in Seoul covering South and North Korea. Email Bio Follow April 11 at 7:11 AM SEOUL — After fighting for women’s right to have an abortion for the past four years, 21-year-old Kim Ye-rim felt herself “liberated” when the judge declared on Thursday South Korea’s abortion ban unconstitutional.
Under the now-overruled regulation, women could be fined or jailed for a year for having abortions, while doctors who assist with them could face up to two years in prison. The court ordered lawmakers to revise the law by the end of 2020. On the other side of the court, abortion opponents brought a group of children to chant slogans and hold pictures of unborn fetuses. Reverend Yosep Joo of the National Coalition against Abortion denounced the court decision as “against humanity,” while antiabortion campaigners shouted “murderer” at the cheering proponents.
The antiabortion law was put in place in 1953 and has been selectively enforced at the whim of subsequent governments. Fast-forward to 2000s, the population control turned out to have worked too well, bringing down the fertility way below two-child replacement level. In November 2009, the South Korean government announced a “comprehensive plan for low birthrate” which included a crackdown on abortion. Later that year, a group of physicians formed Pro-Life Doctors Association and started naming clinics performing abortion.
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