Pro-Choice Petition Reaches the Blue House

This week, the question of whether South Korean women should have access to legal abortions is being officially addressed at the highest levels of government. On Sep. 30, a petitioner wrote [https://www1.president.go.kr/petitions/18278?navigation=petitions] on the presidential office’s website about lifting the abortion ban and legalizing abortion pills. The petition, now closed, garnered over 234,000 signatures within a month. “I think unwanted birth is a tragedy to the mother, the newborn an