In a horrendous case, the Korea Times is reporting that an abortionist has been arrested and charged with murder after he aborted a full-term baby believed to have been born alive and then left to die unattended.
Judge Park Jeong-ho at the Seoul Central District Court issued arrest warrants on Saturday for the surgeon, identified only by his last name Shim, and the clinic’s head, surnamed Yoon, over their alleged roles in the death of a baby believed to have been born alive and then left to die through willful neglect.
This arrest follows an initial October 2024 court rejection of detention requests for the doctors. In the intervening months, investigators conducted extensive searches of the clinic’s electronic devices and the mobile phones of key suspects to gather additional evidence.
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The case came to light and gained widespread attention when the woman who was aborted released a You Tube video.
The Korean Medical Association released a statement that read in part “a fetus at 36 weeks of pregnancy is a baby who could survive well if born, and terminating a pregnancy at this stage is tantamount to murder.”
Compounding the atrocity, investigators “also found that hundreds of other pregnant women had undergone abortion procedures at the same clinic.”
According to Min-ho
In 2019, the Constitutional Court ruled that an outright abortion ban was unconstitutional, effectively decriminalizing the medical procedure. However, without subsequent legislation to clearly define the permissible limits, the issue remains in a legal gray area. As a result, providers can still face prosecution ― possibly for murder ― if the procedures are performed too late in pregnancy or if the methods used are deemed unlawful.
He added
Experts speculate that an abortion at such a late stage might have involved inducing labor, which the law could interpret as “murder after birth.”
The parties in Korea have sparred over addressing “legal loopholes,” but have gridlocked over how far into pregnancy abortion should be allowed.
Meanwhile, “the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety was reviewing whether to approve Hyundai Pharm’s abortion pill, but this process was also halted due to legislative gridlock,” Min-ho reported.
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