{"id":305420,"date":"2024-01-22T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=305420"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T01:20:46","slug":"ghoulish-infanticide-still-happening-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ghoulish-infanticide-still-happening-today\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ghoulish’ acts of infanticide in post-WWII Japan shock the senses. Shouldn’t abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seventy-six years ago in January of 1948, police officers in Japan made a series of gruesome discoveries. They found the remains of five infants killed by a midwife. Then they discovered 40 murdered infants in a nearby mortician’s office, and 30 more in a local temple.<\/p>\n

It was just over two years since the end of World War II, and Japan was facing a crisis. Ten million people were declared to be at risk of starvation, and infanticide had become the norm when it came to newborn baby girls. Infanticide, called mabiki in Japan, was acceptable and “more or less legal,” according to the “Oxford Textbook of The Newborn, A Cultural and Medical History<\/a>,” because of the low economic status of so many Japanese couples.<\/p>\n

WARNING: Readers may find content disturbing.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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