Posted on 06/30/2009 9:23:09 PM PDT by Tamar1973
The legal period for abortions will be shortened from 28 weeks of pregnancy to 24 starting July 8.
And pregnant women will no longer be able to get an abortion simply because they have infectious diseases such as AIDS, rubella, chicken pox, or hepatitis, or suffer from hereditary diseases such as liver trouble, mental diseases, hemophilia, and epilepsy.
The changes are included in a revision to the enforcement ordinance of the Mother and Child Health Act. The bill was endorsed by the government in a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
Lee Won-hee, a director at the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, said, "We decided to shorten the legal deadline for abortion to respect the lives of fetuses. The legal deadline in most other countries is shorter than in Korea, being 24 weeks in the U.K., 22 in Japan and 12 in Germany."
Some diseases will no longer warrant an abortion if there are insufficient medical arguments about the chances of the disease being transmitted to the fetus, or if they could be cured even if fetuses are infected.
The USA doesn't even have a "legal deadline" for abortion, which is one of the reasons I predict that our country will become more of a cesspool than it already is. We're a so-called Christian nation and we kill more of our own citizens than people who died in either WW2 or the Korean War.
This is South Korea?
Yep. South Korea.
And GOD weeps.
A small step for man, a larger step for fetal rights.
Pregnancy is the most lethal disease that a child in America can face, a third of them die from it.
Although I appreciate your response. I still have strong reservations.
Unfortunately … GOD still weeps. Regardless the silver lining. Abortion is the ultimate abomination.
I think Koreans were embarrassed by the fact that their rules were more lenient than Japan, Germany and the UK. South Korea is also looking at a very low birth rate (despite their relatively low abortion rate per capita) and realized something needed to change quickly.
Outside of the poor in this country virtually no one has more than two children.
Only the poor are having large families and they often are from numerous fathers. None of whom take an interest in the children.
All the wrong people have all the rights.
But South Korea’s the lowest in the OECD.
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