Push to End South Korea Abortion Ban Gains Strength, and Signatures<br />Advocates say the ban makes women seeking abortions vulnerable to reprisals; boyfriends, former boyfriends, husbands<br />and in-laws have reported women to the police, according to South Korean news reports.<br />Heather Barr said that The president could just at the stroke of a pen say, ‘That’s it, we’re going to have zero tolerance now,’<br />Women can be sentenced to a year in prison or ordered to pay fines of two million won (about $1,840)<br />for having abortions, while doctors who perform them can get up to two years in prison.<br />Kim said that Everything is related to how the government views the existence of women,<br />and whether they are just looked at as vessels to give birth or if they are concerned about the quality of life of women as full-fledged citizens,<br />Kim Jin-seon, head of the women’s health team at Womenlink, a nonprofit advocacy group,<br />said the abortion law is rooted in broader biases against women in South Korea.<br />Abortion rights advocates say that even with lax enforcement, women will be subject to political whims as long as the law is in place.<br />" Dr. Yoon said. that This new organization scared off the doctors and made them hesitant to perform abortions,<br />According to a government estimate, based on a survey of women of childbearing age, 169,000 abortions were<br />conducted in 2010, the latest year for which data is available from the Health and Welfare Ministry.
