From Population Control to Reproductive Justice - Decriminalization of Abortion in South Korea
Kim, Sunhye
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Verfassungsblog
2023-02-07
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On 11 April 2019, South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled that the ban on abortion was unconstitutional. As a result, South Korea’s legislature had to revise its 66-year-old anti-abortion law by 31 December 2020. This historic decision was made possible in response to the advocacy of a number of feminist groups, doctors’ organizations, disability rights groups, youth activists, and religious groups in South Korea. Although the overall goal of reproductive justice movements was to change the law that threatened women’s health and lives through the criminalization of abortion, one of the main steps of the movements toward that goal was to challenge the previous framework of pro-choice versus pro-life.
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Kim, Sunhye
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Reproductive Rights
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https://verfassungsblog.de/from-population-control-to-reproductive-justice/
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