South Korea Court Strikes Down Abortion Ban [Molech Media Happy]

South Korea's Constitutional Court said Thursday a law criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional, a landmark ruling that will overturn a ban on abortion that had been in place since 1953.

The court said in a statement the outright ban on abortion, as well as a law that made doctors who conduct abortions with the woman's consent liable to criminal charges...

A nation of 51,000,000 is being told by a cabal of NINE "judges" to re-write law? And this same court just a few years ago UPHELD the law as in line with the Constitution?

The servants of Molech are on the move, folks. We must pray for the servants of righteousness and the protection of innocent babies in Korea as well as America.

Reading media reports on this travesty makes one nauseous. No doubt the #FakeNews is THRILLED to have more children aborted....how terrible.

So, if anyone has knowledge of that South Korea court can shed light, how has it changed?

In 2012, the court upheld the ban.

This reminds me of the Massachusetts marriage law...the court ORDERED the legislative branch to write a new law and the lapdog legislature obeyed! Since WHEN does a legislative branch take ORDERS from a judicial branch? Absurd.

The court has 5-4 conservative / christian majority.
In 2012, the court has 6-3 liberal majority (after 2 liberal presidents).
The court struck down the abortion law by 7-2 margin.

What the court said was that it was up to legislative branch to come up with the proper standard, and that if it doesn’t come up by 2020, then the entire abortion law goes away and becomes free for all.

I think that whatever part of the South Korean Constitution was used as the basis for the court’s decision it is likely overly broad and unspecific, leaving lots of wiggle room for the judges to play in.

I have an English language version of the South Korean government. I read through multiple places where the judges could consider an individual right as prohibiting restrictions against abortion. Individual rights are all over the South Korean constitution - not only individuals’ rights but their duties, including a “duty” to work. Their constitution is less an outline of how the government is, or must function, than a laundry list of things covering specific areas - every area - of Korean society.

To my thinking it reads more like a general law than a basic law. It is itself too broad as to all the specific areas it covers, and in too many places too opaque in terms of what many specifics might mean the laws could do.

There are 128 individual articles of the constitution of the Republic of Korea (south Korea) plus admendments. The U.S. Constitution has just seven basic articles and 27 amendments. One (ours) is a blueprint, while the other (theirs) is a laundry list.

I’m very surprised to hear that abortion was illegal in South Korea. Despite the fact that abortions were illegal, South Korea had a TFR* (total fertility rate) of 1.17. Replacement rate is 2.0. It looks like the ROKs are following Japan down the demographic drain, but more rapidly.

* Total children born to 1 woman.

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