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Dying South Korea to Legalise Abortion Pills

Korean Christians are strongly condemning the South Korean government’s announcement on Wednesday that the use of abortion pills will be permitted in the country for the first time. As recently as June, the Seoul Administrative Court had ruled that abortion groups could not advertise for the deadly drug within the country. That appears is now set to change.

Despite the fact that the country has a disastrously low birth rate, and is spending huge sums trying to put that right, the decision will cut even further the number of little Koreans who are conceived and survive until birth.

On September 16, the government stated that it plans to allow pill abortions for women up to nine weeks pregnant by early 2027, to be prescribed and dispensed by physicians for the first two years. The Constitutional Court formally decriminalised abortion in 2019, but South Korea’s parliament had deliberately delayed legislating on the issue due to strong opposition from Christian groups.

“This introduction of medication abortion is meaningful because it’s a step to make sure that ending pregnancy is done more safely and within the national healthcare system, and to improve the situation caused by a lack of an effective government oversight system,” Gender Equality and Family Minister Won Min-kyong stated at a press conference.

“The step is designed to approve a local company’s application for importing a two-drug combination pack consisting of mifepristone and misoprostol,” reported the Associated Press. “In July, President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal, instructed officials to explore ways to allow women to use the two-drug combination pack.” The Korea Women’s Association United, a feminist organization, called on the government to ensure that the abortion pill is covered by the national health insurance system.

~Dr. Death" Eyes London for Pop-Up Clinic

A euthanasia campaigner and former GP nicknamed ‘Dr Death’ has said he plans to open a “pop-up office” in London to advise people on travelling to Switzerland to end their lives by assisted suicide. 

Philip Nitschke, the controversial founder of pro-euthanasia organisation Exit International and inventor of the Sarco gas chamber assisted suicide pod, disclosed that he was considering setting up a “general Swiss referral service” in London to assist people in ending their lives.

“There is so much interest, it would be a pretty useful thing to have in London”, Nitschke said. “It will basically be a place where people can go and speak English to someone because, often, people have trouble trying to organise everything on the internet with the organisations in Switzerland”.

Reflecting on whether this service would even be legal in England, where it is a criminal offence to assist suicide, Nitschke said, “If you’ve got a lot of your population seeking information about assisted dying, then to try and use some form of censorship to try and stop people getting that information reflects pretty badly on any administration that would do that”.

Ahead of the event, MPs and campaigners called on the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to prevent Nitschke from being allowed into the UK to host this event, in which he planned to demonstrate his Kairos ‘suicide collar’ device.

The collar, called “Kairos”, consists of two balloons that exert pressure on the carotid artery, leading first to unconsciousness and then to death.

Earlier this year, Nitschke said that he would conduct the first assisted suicide using the collar on a woman in Switzerland who would be his first “test subject”.

Ultimately, Nitschke hosted his workshop without the collar. 

“I have left the device in the Netherlands. I feared it would be stopped at customs. We are under pressure from authorities about what they call ‘giving dangerous information to vulnerable people’”, he said. 

“The device is not expensive to make but we are currently in the testing phase and it would be a real setback to lose it”, Nitschke added.

He has claimed that it is difficult for governments to stop because it can be built at home.