Seoul - South Korea's Constitutional Court said on 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 had previously upheld the abortion law in 2012 in a closely divided decision, dividing the eight justices evenly. The law states that a woman who undergoes abortion will serve a prison sentence of one year or less, or pay a fine of 2 million won or less. "If the case does not fall under an exemption, the law forces the pregnant woman to maintain the pregnancy completely and uniformly without exception even in cases where there are circumstances causing conflicts about abortion due to diverse, widespread societal and economic reasons," the court said.
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