Posted on 08/03/2026 11:51:40 AM PDT by Morgana
A Canadian nonprofit’s website that mails abortion pills to women worldwide will stay blocked in Korea after a Seoul court ruled that the government’s ban was not unlawful, according to legal sources on Saturday.
The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Women on Web against the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), seeking to overturn the regulator’s corrective order ㅑon June 12.
The block is “hard to see as unlawful because Women on Web’s provision of abortion pills that were not manufactured, imported or approved for use in Korea violated the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act,” the court said. It therefore ruled that the website’s content constituted “information intended for a crime” under the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, which states that “no one shall distribute information intended for a crime, or that instigates or aids one.”
also dismissed the case on procedural grounds: The power of attorney allowing the lawyers to represent Women on Web was not notarized, so those lawyers were not legally authorized to bring the suit in the first place.
Women on Web provides abortion pills by mail to women around the world who order them through its website.
The KCSC issued a corrective order to network operators in October 2024, directing them to block access to the website. In February of the following year, the commission demanded that the domain registrar cancel the site’s domain.
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Abortion pills shipped to residents of states which ban abortion should result in severe criminal penalties to the party ordering them. Not much can be done to the sender.
The last thing Korea needs is more abortions.
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