Korea's human rights commission says it's unconstitutional to criminalize abortions.
The National Human Rights Commission on Sunday submitted a report to the Constitutional Court,...
stating that punitive laws against women who terminate their pregnancies violates their right to self-determination.
The report comes ahead of the Court's decision next month on whether to scrap the 1953 law that criminalizes abortions.
Abortion is illegal in Korea, with a maximum fine of 2 million won or a year in prison for intentional miscarriages.
However, in recent years,... there have been growing calls to change the law, with seven out of ten women against the criminalization of abortions.