The police have withheld the id of the lady (Representational)
Seoul:
South Korean police mentioned Monday they have been investigating a YouTuber who vlogged about present process a late-term abortion, sparking on-line outrage and calls from the nation’s well being ministry for a homicide probe.
The girl, whose id police withheld, claimed in a video posted on Google-owned YouTube in June to have undergone an abortion in her thirty-sixth week of being pregnant, saying she had solely found she was pregnant very late within the course of.
The footage, which was later deleted, shortly went viral in South Korea, with screenshots from it nonetheless circulating broadly on-line and the nation’s well being ministry calling for a homicide investigation.
“We now have booked the lady and the pinnacle of a medical clinic who carried out the process as suspects,” a consultant of the Seoul Police Company advised AFP.
The police confirmed the footage was real, saying that they had recognized the clinic the place the process was carried out via an evaluation of the video.
Police are investigating precisely what occurred, a police official mentioned in accordance with the Yonhap information company, including that the probe may implicate extra individuals.
Till 2019, South Korea was one in every of only a handful of industrialised nations that broadly criminalised abortion, besides in cases of rape, incest, and when the mom’s well being was in jeopardy.
However 5 years in the past, the Constitutional Court docket ordered the decades-old ban lifted, ruling that the 1953 statute “goes towards the structure”.
It ordered the legislation to be revised by the tip of 2020 but it surely has but to be.
On account of the authorized vacuum, there may be technically no restrict on late-term abortions, however police are claiming authority to analyze.
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