Posted on 06/18/2022 11:35:34 PM PDT by Morgana
KUMAMOTO, Japan — The discreet path to a safe space for women with unwanted pregnancies is marked with an unassuming sign: two smiling storks, carrying a clover leaf and a smiling baby in a basket.
Here, at Japan’s only “baby hatch,” women can anonymously leave their babies at Jikei Hospital to be put up for adoption. It’s a last resort for those who are unable or unwilling to raise a baby, with some women coming from across the country because they have nowhere and no one else to turn to.
With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to overturn a 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, there is a global spotlight on reproductive care — including in Japan, which has some of the tightest restrictions on abortion among wealthy nations.
Japan is one of 11 countries — and the only one of the Group of Seven largest economies — that mandate that women get their spouse’s consent to obtain an abortion, with very few exceptions, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, an international organization. In practice, advocates say, the requirement often applies to unmarried women, too, and has led to rare and tragic instances of women leaving their babies in public places to die — something the Jikei Hospital baby hatch is meant to address.
Abortions are legal, but only with an expensive surgery. Contraceptive use is low. Morning-after pills are expensive and only available by prescription. Japan is weighing whether to make abortion pills available. The World Health Organization calls their use a safe and noninvasive way to terminate a pregnancy.
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I have to wonder what happens if the man says no to the abortion in Japan?
Different problems in Japan but at the same time they do not face issues that we are encountering in the West.
The last thing Japan needs, in its era of economic collapse, is mass access to abortion.
The United States made abortion legal in Japan, before it was legal in any state. Now that decision could be fatal to the U.S.
What makes you think many women in Japan want abortions. I am guessing mostly men want it.
It makes natural sense that a man must be informed of and must approve of an abortion.
A woman should have no unilateral right to abort a child without permission of the father. Nor should a man have a right to ignore that child and walk away from all responsibilities in raising it
WHO. The good folks that helped bring us Covid now call killing a baby "safe."
There were 166,000 abortions in Japan from 2015-2019, so a lot less than in the U.S.
Fathers have a natural right to protect the lives of their daughters and sons between conception and birth and that right needs to be protected by law in every country.
Abortion is murder, not a “reproductive right”.
Millions of fathers are perfectly capable of raising their own daughters and sons in instances where the mothers don’t want to be involved.
All the mothers have to do in those instances is refrain from murdering the babies between conception and birth.
Why do you presume that?
What stereotypes about mothers and fathers respectively are you basing your view on?
What if it’s the man who is pregnant?
So what do they want, us to nuke them again?
WAPO - “reproductive rights”
which is killing.
No man should ever approach a uterus where life was brutally slaughtered. Stay away from kill holes.
“Millions of fathers are perfectly capable of raising their own daughters and sons “
In a lot of cases in Japan the grandparents will help bring up the child . BTW - I live in Kumamoto and am proud to say that I have a 10 month old grandson who has both a mother and father , both high school teachers and happy .
If they are married or man carries lifetime financial obligation why shouldn’t he have a say?
This requirement for husband’s permission was also required in the States years ago.
The husband’s consent is a very reasonable requirement.
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