Claim: South Korea court strikes down abortion law in landmark ruling.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Abortion in South Korea
text: law should be modified. In September 2017, campaigners filed a petition on the website of Moon Jae-in, the President of South Korea, calling on the government to amend the law by permitting the sale of the abortion pill mifepristone. In November 2017, the office of the president announced in response that the government would review the abortion law. In 2018, the Constitutional Court is set to hear a case which challenges the constitutionality of the abortion law. Sex-selective abortion, attributed to a cultural preference for sons, is widespread. Despite a 1987 revision of the Medical Code prohibiting physicians from using

title: Abortion in South Korea
text: Abortion in South Korea Abortion in South Korea is illegal in most circumstances, but illegal abortions are widespread. The government of South Korea criminalized abortion in the 1953 Criminal Code in all circumstances. This was amended by the Maternal and Child Health Law of 1973, which permits a physician to perform an abortion if the pregnant woman or her spouse suffers from certain hereditary or communicable diseases, if the pregnancy results from rape or incest, or if continuing the pregnancy would jeopardize the woman's health. Any physician who violates the law is punished by two years' imprisonment. Self-induced abortions are

title: Abortion in South Korea
text: illegal, and punishable by a fine or imprisonment. Nonetheless, abortions are commonly performed at hospitals and clinics. The abortion law was not strongly enforced, especially during campaigns to lower South Korea's high fertility rate in the 1970s and 1980s. As the fertility rate dropped in the 2000s, the government and anti-abortion campaigners turned their attention to illegal abortions and the government stepped up enforcement of the abortion law in response. Nonetheless, few women or physicians are prosecuted under the law. Much of the ensuing debate has focused on whether the government should crack down on illegal abortions, and whether the

title: Abortion in South Korea
text: Park Myung-bae of Pai Chai University, estimate that there may be as many as 500,000 or 1 million abortions per year. [[Category:Abortion by Abortion in South Korea Abortion in South Korea is illegal in most circumstances, but illegal abortions are widespread. The government of South Korea criminalized abortion in the 1953 Criminal Code in all circumstances. This was amended by the Maternal and Child Health Law of 1973, which permits a physician to perform an abortion if the pregnant woman or her spouse suffers from certain hereditary or communicable diseases, if the pregnancy results from rape or incest, or if

title: Abortion in South Korea
text: prenatal testing to reveal the sex of the child, the ratio of boys to girls at birth continued to climb through the 1990s. The 1987 law was ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in 2008. Using a 2005 survey of 25 hospitals and 176 private clinics, one study estimated that 342,433 induced abortions were performed that year, which would imply an abortion rate of 29.8 abortions per 1000 women aged 15–44. The rate was higher among single women than among married women. The Ministry of Health and Welfare estimated that 169,000 induced abortions were performed in 2010. Other researchers, including

title: Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
text: Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion. On June 28, the Supreme Court refused to hear challenges from Wisconsin and Mississippi where federal appeals courts had struck down similar laws. Other states with similar laws may also be impacted. It has been called the most significant abortion rights case before the Supreme Court since "Planned

title: Law of South Korea
text: A person arrested for a crime also has the right to have his family or other close kin promptly notified as to the reason, time, and place of his detention. The Korean Penal code is organized into 372 articles, further organized into 4 chapters of general provisions and 42 chapters of specific provisions. Abortion is restricted under the Korean Penal Code. Until recently there was little English literature written about Korean civil procedure. The primary body of law on civil procedure is the Korean Civil Procedure Act and the Korean Rules of Civil Procedure (KRCP). Another important area is the

title: Law of South Korea
text: of appeals can examine the facts as well as law and the parties can submit new allegations and pieces of evidence. After the appellate court makes a decision, the parties can appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court hears a large number of appeal cases (about 8,859 in 2006) and sometimes rules on factual issues as well. After the appeal process is over, the judgment is finalized and is binding. The enforcement of civil judgments is dictated by the Civil Execution Act. Judgments rendered by a foreign court can be enforced. Private Law issues in Korea are regulated by

title: Intact dilation and extraction
text: challenges, with Nebraska's the first to reach decision in "Stenberg v. Carhart". The Federal District Court held Nebraska's statute unconstitutional on two counts. One being the bill's language was too broad, potentially rendering a range of abortion procedures illegal, and thus, creating an undue burden on a woman's ability to choose. The other count was the bill failed to provide a necessary exception for the health of the woman. The decision was appealed to and affirmed by both the Eighth Circuit and the Supreme Court in June 2000, thus resolving the legal challenges to similar state bans nationwide. Since the

title: Abortion in Canada
text: decision. The Ontario Court of Appeal set aside the acquittal and ordered a re-trial. Morgentaler, in turn, appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada. In a landmark decision, the Court declared in 1988 the entirety of the country's abortion law to be unconstitutional. The court noted that "[f]orcing a woman, by threat of criminal sanction, to carry a fetus to term unless she meets certain criteria unrelated to her own priorities and aspirations" and that the law "asserts that the woman's capacity to reproduce is to be subject, not to her own control, but to that of the state" were

title: Choi Jin-sil
text: apartments. In handing down its ruling, the Supreme Court censured Choi for coming forward and declaring herself a victim of domestic violence, saying it constituted a failure to maintain proper "social and moral honour". Her two children became defendants as heirs. On 9 June 2009, Korean Womenlink, the Korea Women's Hot Line, and the Korea Women's Association United issued a joint statement lambasting the ruling. Women's groups censured the Supreme Court for not realising the suffering of domestic violence victims, which included Choi. As to the ruling, the groups claimed that revealing the results of domestic violence was not a

title: 2013 Philippine Senate election
text: taking down the oversized poster in the Bacolod cathedral. In a surprise move, the Supreme Court stopped the implementation of the controversial Reproductive Health Law by issuing a status quo ante order for 120 days. The court will further determine the constitutionality of the law. The Catholic Church and several pro-life support groups praised the decision as a "temporary victory". Several members of the clergy have urged to backing of anti-RH legislators in the midterm polls. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) through its Philippine co-partnered media group, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) released details of offshore

title: Abortion in Uganda
text: the Bourne decision, a physician was acquitted of the offence of performing an abortion in the case of a woman who had been raped. The court ruled that the abortion was lawful because it had been performed to prevent the woman from becoming “a physical and mental wreck”, thus setting a precedent for future abortion cases performed on the grounds of preserving the pregnant woman’s physical and mental health. The liberalization and legality of abortion in Uganda has been complicated by the use of rape as a weapon of war and terror by rebel groups in the region." In Uganda,

title: Defensive democracy
text: in Constitution (§8(4) — esp. defensive democracy to prevent illegal parties) and has some procedures in other laws. The Constitutional Court of Korea is in charge of deciding if a party is illegal and therefore should be dissolved. For the first time since the Constitutional Court of Korea was created, on November 2013, the Justice Ministry of Korea petitioned the Constitutional Court to dissolve the Unified Progressive Party, citing its pro-North Korean activities (see 2013 South Korean sabotage plot). On 19 December 2014, the Court ruled 8-1 that the Unified Progressive Party be dissolved. This ruling was quite controversial in

title: Roe v. Wade
text: Clause. In the case of "Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt", the most significant abortion rights case before the Supreme Court since "Planned Parenthood v. Casey" in 1992, the Supreme Court in a 5–3 decision on June 27, 2016, swept away forms of state restrictions on the way abortion clinics can function. The Texas legislature enacted in 2013 restrictions on the delivery of abortions services that created an undue burden for women seeking an abortion by requiring abortion doctors to have difficult-to-obtain "admitting privileges" at a local hospital and by requiring clinics to have costly hospital-grade facilities. The Court struck down

title: City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health
text: City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed its abortion rights jurisprudence. The case struck down several provisions of an Ohio abortion law. In an opinion by Justice Powell, the Court struck down each of the challenged provisions. One provision of the statute required abortions after the first trimester to be performed in a hospital. The Court found that to be unconstitutional. The state has a compelling interest in regulating abortion after the first trimester,

title: Constitutional Court of Korea
text: Court gave rulings in more than 400 cases in its first year of operation. As of December 31, 2006, the new Constitutional Court has already examined 13,945 cases with 13,058 cases resolved and 887 cases pending. This drastic change largely owes to the people's movement for democracy in 1987 which gave a birth to the current Constitutional Court and allowed a new judicial review system in Korea. Constitutional Court of Korea The Constitutional Court of Korea () is an independent and specialised court in South Korea, whose primary role is the reviewing of constitutionality under the Constitution of the Republic

title: Intact dilation and extraction
text: "Stenberg v. Carhart" decision, Virginia, Michigan, and Utah have adopted legislation very similar to the Nebraska law overturned as unconstitutional. The Michigan law was similarly struck down for broadness and failure to provide a health exemption. Utah's law remains on the books, pending trial, but is unenforceable under a court-ordered preliminary injunction. Virginia's Law was initially ruled invalid, but was reversed and remanded to the District Court in the wake of the Gonzales v. Carhart decision, where it was upheld as constitutional. This is despite the fact the Virginia law criminalizes abortions for accidental or intentional intact D&E. In 2000

title: Roe v. Wade
text: fair hearing and an honest fight, by continuing the imposition of a rigid national rule instead of allowing for regional differences, the Court merely prolongs and intensifies the anguish." During the 1990s, the state of Nebraska attempted to ban a certain second-trimester abortion procedure known as intact dilation and extraction (sometimes called partial birth abortion). The Nebraska ban allowed other second-trimester abortion procedures called dilation and evacuation abortions. Ginsburg (who replaced White) stated, "this law does not save any fetus from destruction, for it targets only 'a method of performing abortion'." The Supreme Court struck down the Nebraska ban by

title: Supreme Court of South Korea
text: Supreme Court of South Korea The Supreme Court of Korea is the highest court in South Korea. It is located in Seoul. Articles 101–110 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea establish the Supreme Court and enumerate its powers and responsibilities. Although the Supreme Court is the highest court for most legal issues, the Constitutional Court of Korea is the court of last resort for more specialized constitutional issues such as impeaching presidents or dissolving political parties. The Supreme Court of Korea is composed of the Chief Justice of the Republic of Korea, and 13 other Supreme Court Justices,