S. Korea court lifts abortion ban in landmark ruling
Activists celebrating outside the constitutional court in Seoul, South Korea, after today's ruling that decriminalises abortion. A nine-member bench ruled 7-2 that the 1953 statute aimed at protecting lives and traditional values 'goes against the constitution'. – EPA pic, April 11, 2019.
SOUTH Korea’s constitutional court today ordered that the country’s decades-old abortion ban be lifted, in a landmark ruling over a law that campaigners say puts women at risk. South Korea remains one of the few industrialised nations that criminalises abortion, except for instances of rape, incest and when the mother’s health is at risk.
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