Contraction of HIV, Hepatitis Won’t Justify Abortion
By Bae Ji-sook
Staff Reporter
Pregnant women diagnosed with chicken pox, hepatitis or HIV will not be allowed abortions, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs said Tuesday.
``Thanks to ever-improving medical techniques, many of the previously incurable diseases are now curable or at least manageable to a greater extent. Therefore, killing a fetus for such health reasons should not be accepted,'' a ministry official said.
The authorities permit abortion when a woman becomes pregnant through raped or involved in incest; if parents have an inheritable, genetic or transmittable disease or condition; or when a woman could lose her life because of the pregnancy.
However, the revised Mother and Child Law, approved at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, tightened the conditions for abortion. Hemophilia, bipolar disorder and hereditary epilepsy were also scrapped from the list of conditions.
``The revised law is expected to enhance respect toward life and reflect what modern medical skills can offer to a mother and her fetus,'' the official said.
Only conditions that seriously affect a fetus' health, such as rubella or achondroplasia, remain on the list.
Additionally, under the revised law, women will be banned from having the procedure after the 24-week mark, even if they meet other preconditions. The current law allows abortions up to 28 weeks.
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jimbo1a (203.116.47.130)
07-01-2009 18:52
Donnie, the idiot from Canada, AKA canadiot, cannot form an intelligent thought. You have been teaching here for a while, how does a total moron and someone who supports pedophiles in the classroom as well as the beating of children get a teaching job here? Are the hagwons that corrupt?
jimbo1a (203.116.47.130)
07-01-2009 18:50
Hey assholologist, if you are going to make a pathetic attempt at an insult to those of us that are superior to you (meaning anyone alive), try to inject some literacy into your comments. You can't even put an intelligent statement together, never mind and intelligent argument. This has nothing to do with biology you idiot, and the truth is a stranger in you 10 pyung apartment.
donnieboy48 (59.9.85.8)
07-01-2009 18:25
tell me canadiot, if a girl gets raped, she shouldn't have the right NOT to have the baby?, if it wasn't her choosing...if a man forces himself on his young daughter, she should have the child...because if she does the chances are pretty high that it will have mental and physical defects...and who will be responsible for raising that child?? and for YOU to call anyone STUPID is a joke
casseydab (125.136.20.151)
07-01-2009 17:51
if the one person have a good mind she doesn't want to abort her own angel. if you are a spiritual mind you will afraid to take and kill your baby.its because now korea having a big problem not only in abortion but being racist. lack of understanding to the others point of views.
casseydab (125.136.20.151)
07-01-2009 17:49
oh my goodness even you are dying in sickness if you really don't want to take your baby's life alone what ever happend you will try to survive,mayny korean young women now got pregnant and the parents want to abort that baby to less ashamed to the public. what a shamed to God to take the life of the innocent?thats really unforgivable sins. only means korean need education mentally and spiritually.
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