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Canadian-based abortion activist group Women on Web recently<\/span> lost its appeal <\/span><\/a>to a South Korean court after it sued to have the country unblock access to its website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Korea Communications Standards Commission blocked access to the site in 2019, stating that it violated the country\u2019s <\/span>Pharmaceutical Affairs Act <\/span><\/a>by providing abortion drugs to women in the country from pharmacists outside of the country. Neither the abortion pill mifepristone, nor its counterpart misoprostol, is legal in South Korea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Korean news site <\/span>Hankyoreh<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Women on Web objected to their website being blocked, stating that they provide WHO-approved abortion pills, including in \u201cemergency\u201d cases allowed in the current statutes. However, the appeals court\u2019s ruling upheld an earlier court\u2019s decision to allow the government to block the site in South Korea on the basis that, because other means of abortion are available to women, providing abortion pills did not constitute an emergency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Women on Web<\/a> is<\/span> an international abortion business founded by Dutch abortion activist, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. Its mission is to push abortion wherever and however it can, even across international borders, most recently via the abortion pill. The site\u2019s tagline, \u201cabortion pill access by mail,\u201d encapsulates the profiteering group\u2019s reckless efforts to push the abortion pill while downplaying<\/span> the risks<\/span><\/a>, despite the clear <\/span>dangers to women<\/span><\/a>. The group\u2019s mission calls abortion, the deliberate ending of a <\/span>human life<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> as \u201cessential health care and a fundamental human right,\u201d and baselessly calls any pro-life protections \u201cscientifically unsound and harmful.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ: In promoting illegal abortion pill websites, media plays Russian roulette with women\u2019s lives<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since 2019, South Korea has been in a<\/span> legal gray area<\/span><\/a> regarding its abortion laws. That year saw the overturning of a law from the end of the 1953 Korean War that <\/span>outlawed most abortions<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> in part as a response to the population decline on account of the war. When the country\u2019s Constitutional Court vacated the law, it removed the penalties for those who obtained or provided an abortion, <\/span>leaving in place other statutes<\/span><\/a> that \u201climit\u201d abortions to <\/span>cases of rape,<\/span> incest, disability, or health of the mother<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> Induced abortion is the intentional and direct killing of a preborn human being, and therefore is not healthcare and is <\/span>not medically<\/span> necessary<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The court instructed the legislature to revise the abortion statutes in 2020.\u00a0However, that never happened, despite a push to <\/span>make abortion fully legal on demand until 14<\/span> weeks<\/span><\/a> \u2013 or 24 weeks for certain medical conditions. The law expired on January 1, 2021. This means that abortion is currently decriminalized, though not technically fully legal in the country, and preborn children have no legal protections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

South Korea is no stranger to birth control and sterilization, as it is currently facing a <\/span>severe<\/span> population decline<\/span><\/a> due to an aggressive campaign promoting both in the 1970s and 80s. During that time, even though abortion was illegal in the country, it was often illegally encouraged, and was sometimes <\/span>forced <\/span><\/i>up<\/span>on single mothers and women with disabilities. In fact, abortion was so widely accepted and committed in the country that it wasn\u2019t flagged as a target for international abortion groups until the country began to enforce its already existing laws banning abortion in <\/span>the mid-2000s. This eventually gave rise to the prosecution of an abortion, which turned into the case before the country\u2019s high court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to<\/span> government reports<\/span><\/a>, since the decriminalization of abortion in the country, the number of abortions increased from 4,800 in 2017 to 32,000 in 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Women on Web is likely to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, according to Hankyoreh.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian-based abortion activist group Women on Web recently lost its appeal to a South Korean court after it sued to have the country unblock access to its website.\u00a0 The Korea Communications Standards Commission blocked access to the site in 2019, stating that it violated the country\u2019s Pharmaceutical Affairs Act by providing abortion drugs to women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":308506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPro-abortion Women on Web group sues South Korea to allow access to site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Canadian-based abortion activist group Women on Web recently lost its appeal to a South Korean court over abortion laws.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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