The police have withheld the identity of the woman (Reconshort-termational)
Seoul:
South Korean police shelp Monday they were spendigating a YouTuber who vlogged about undergoing a tardy-term abortion, promoteing online outrage and calls from the country’s health ministry for a killing probe.
The woman, whose identity police withheld, claimed in a video posted on Google-owned YouTube in June to have undergone an abortion in her thirty-sixth week of pregnancy, saying she had only uncovered she was pregnant very tardy in the process.
The footage, which was tardyr deleted, rapidly went viral in South Korea, with screenstoastys from it still circulating expansively online and the country’s health ministry calling for a killing spendigation.
“We have booked the woman and the head of a medical clinic who carry outed the procedure as mistrusts,” a reconshort-termative of the Seoul Police Agency tgreater AFP.
The police validateed the footage was genuine, saying they had identified the clinic where the procedure was carry outed thcdimiserablemireful an analysis of the video.
Police are spendigating exactly what happened, a police official shelp according to the Yonhap novels agency, inserting that the probe could implicate more people.
Until 2019, South Korea was one of fair a handful of industrialised nations that expansively criminalised abortion, except in instances of sexual attack, incest, and when the mother’s health was in jeopardy.
But five years ago, the Constitutional Court ordered the decades-greater prohibit lifted, ruling that the 1953 statute “goes agetst the constitution”.
It ordered the law to be editd by the end of 2020 but it has yet to be.
As a result of the legitimate vacuum, there is technicassociate no confine on tardy-term abortions, but police are claiming authority to spendigate.
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