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Pro-choice activism in South Korea

Pro-choice: the support of legal and safe abortions

https://search.proquest.com/docview/1986938550?pq-origsite=summon


 * "Now,a group of women's advocates is pushing to overturn the ban, and the country's Constitutional Court is set to review a case that challenges the law's constitutionality."
 * The Constitutional Court has taken into consideration pro-choice cases by women because they find the abortion ban as unconstitutional.
 * "Last fall, more than 230,000 people signed an online petition submitted to the presidential office, known as the Blue House, calling for abortion to be legalized."
 * To help support the legalization of abortion in South Korea, thousands of advocates compiled a petition for the Blue House to consider lifting the ban.
 * "The activists are seeking to bring the law closer to the current reality."
 * Due to the abortion ban, this has led to many dangerous self-induced abortions and other illegal practices of abortion that needs more attention. This is why there are advocates challenging the law to put into perspective the negative factors this abortion ban brings.
 * "Advocates calling for an end to the ban have long argued that South Korea's laws violate a woman's right to make choices about her body."
 * "Kim Jin-seon, head of the women's health team at Womenlink, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the abortion law is rooted in broader biases against women in South Korea."
 * "Kim Jin-seon, head of the women's health team at Womenlink, a nonprofit advocacy group, said the abortion law is rooted in broader biases against women in South Korea."

https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/11/09/a-campaign-to-legalise-abortion-is-gaining-ground-in-south-korea


 * "Advocates of abortion, many of them young women, are mounting a counter-attack. A year ago 14 women's-rights groups gathered in central Seoul to protest against the abortion law and the abortion policies of Park Geun-hye, the (conservative) president at the time. Just days earlier the Ministry of Health had withdrawn a bill increasing the penalties for doctors performing abortions, after a backlash from doctors and women's rights groups."

https://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/south-korea-joint-action-for-reproductive-justice-formed-activities-for-28-september/


 * "Joint Action for Reproductive Justice, a network of Korean feminist groups, and organizations, and many other feminist groups and individuals, took part in the Global Day of Action this year."
 * "The Joint Action for Reproductive Justice network includes these groups: Center for Health and Social Change, Femidangdang, Femimonsters, Flaming Feminist Action, Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, Korean Women’s Associations United, Korea Women’s Hot Line, Network for Glocal Activism, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Forum, Womenlink, Women with Disabilities Empathy."

https://search.proquest.com/docview/2014470671?https://search.proquest.com/genderwatch/advanced/&pq-origsite=summon