cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/world@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/981109/south-korea-set-to-approve-abortion-pills-for-the-1st-time-next-year
South Korea plans to approve abortion pills for the first time to promote women’s rights to health and safety, deepening debates over abortions in a country that until recently had imposed strict rules on the procedure.
The government announced Wednesday that it aims to allow medication abortions for women who are up to nine weeks pregnant by the first quarter of 2027. Officials said that for the first two years, abortion pills would be directly prescribed and dispensed by doctors.
In a landmark ruling in 2019, South Korea’s Constitutional Court ordered the easing of the decades-old ban on most abortions, one of the strictest in the developed world. Abortion was subsequently decriminalized, but parliament has yet to revise related legislation, as opposition remains strong among many religious and conservative groups.
Some women have turned to unauthorized online channels to get abortion drugs that are not verified safe. The legislative gap has also undermined women’s rights to choose surgical or medication abortions and caused some confusion in the medical field.
“This introduction of medication abortion is meaningful because it’s a step to make sure that ending pregnancy is done more safely and within the national healthcare system, and to improve the situation caused by a lack of an effective government oversight system,” Gender Equality and Family Minister Won Min-kyong told a news conference.
The step is designed to approve a local company’s application for importing a two-drug combination pack consisting of mifepristone and misoprostol. A combination of mifepristone and misoprostol is the most common regimen for abortion pills in the United States.
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pepintheshort@ieji.de · -5 pts · 2d
@velma and that is a basic human right and even a family right that affects flirts and husbands alike, and even grandparents and it gets slapped a #feminism tag because yeah girl powah who cares about privileged men isn't it
velma@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2d
Yeah, abortion pill access is one piece of women's liberation, bodily autonomy, and self determination.
Why do you have a problem with this article being in the feminism community?
pepintheshort@ieji.de · -5 pts · 2d
@velma because women don't live in a vacuum. If she got pregnant then there most likely is a man involved. Which may not wish to become father. It could have been an adventure, he could be an underage student in which case his parents would be on the hook. I really don't see how you expect a pregnancy to only ever affect the mother
velma@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
A pregnancy only affects the mother. A baby affects both.
pepintheshort@ieji.de · -5 pts · 2d
@velma you live in a sad world if that's all you ever experienced. I can only say it's not true. At least you agree the baby affect the father too, which confirms this affects both people and not just one. I'd say it's liberation for both but hey, if you're happy hating on men you do you
velma@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2d
I'm not hating on men by stating that pregnancy only affects the mother. It's literally her body.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 17h
Pregnancy affects whoever gets pregnant, trans men and nonbinary people can get pregnant too
velma@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 15h
You are correct. This other user is not looking out for trans men and non binary people with his argument here.
pepintheshort@ieji.de · -5 pts · 2d
@velma sure she gets impacted the most during pregnancy, but think of men having to take their responsibility and support a woman that was just a flirt. Take her to hospital, be there, buy food and supplements, stick around, give money, maybe even end up in an unwanted marriage. I've personally seen entire lives ruined, children included, male and female, just because pill was not an option. But the bellyh, right
velma@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
Ok.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what feminism is about.