South Korea: Medication Abortion Rules Too Restrictive

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A box of Mifepristone combined with Misoprostol tablets, May 2026. © 2026 Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Tokyo) – A South Korean government proposal would allow medication abortion in South Korea in 2027, but overly restrictive regulations will continue to impair the right of women and girls to safe and affordable abortion services, Human Rights Watch said today. National Assembly members have questioned government officials about the plan during a parliamentary audit. Seven years after South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled the country’s decades-long…

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