GYNOB
Launched in December 2008, GYNOB was initially composed of dozens of obstetricians who held a press conference apologizing for aiding women by providing illegal abortions. As a pro-life organization, GYNOB calls on other doctors to confess whether they have performed illegal abortions. In December 2009, GYNOB helped launch another organization, Pro-life Doctors, which encourages women to avoid having an abortion and provides a hotline for people to report clinics that perform abortions illegally.[1]
Housing both medical and non-medical professionals, the Korean Prolife Doctors Association (KPDA) has more than 120 current members. And while it did stem from GYNOB, it has opposed one of GYNOB’s tenant objectives: the crackdown on abortions. KDPA believes that a crackdown on abortions will only cause an increase in health problems and unsafe abortions.[1] It strongly encourages GYNOB to reconsider how pervasive operations that force abortions deeper underground could be. Currently, it is unclear whether Korean doctors’ reluctance to provide abortions is affecting their overall availability, but the Director of the Korean Sexual Violence Relief Center reports there has been an increase “in the number of women denied abortions (even in one case of rape) who have approached the Center for counseling.”[1]
Although GYNOB has gained lots of popularity, their morality-based campaign is considered unusual in South Korea. In comparison to many Western countries, abortion carries little emotional or religious significance in South Korea. GYNOB focuses on emphasizing the lack of governmental regulation surrounding abortions in South Korea– they demand ending abortions altogether.[2]
Christian activists support GYNOB, but the group states that their motivations are not religious. Roman Catholics have advocated against abortions in South Korea, but their efforts have quickly been dismissed by the public.[2]
According to GYNOB, the pressure of fewer women having children coupled with the government holding down medical costs led lots of obstetricians to ignore the morality of abortions. Illegal abortions–which cost approximately $340 and are typically paid for upfront– provided a new lucrative source of income for obstetricians in South Korea.[3]
With over 680 active members, what distinguishes GYNOB from other anti-abortion campaigns in South Korea is their three stated objectives: “to end all abortions in Korea; as a short-term measure, to reduce the number of abortions in Korea to 100,000 within ten years; and to eliminate all forms of abortion except when necessary to save the life of an expectant mother.”[1]
GYNOB is committed to fighting the notion that South Korea is an “Abortion Republic.”[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "South Korea: Stop criminalization of abortion". Human Rights Documents Online. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Choi, Anna (May 2012). "Anti-Abortion Movement Led by Obstetrician/Gynecologists in South Korea". The Linacre Quarterly. 79 (2): 243–244. doi:10.1179/002436312803571410. ISSN 0024-3639.
- ↑ Choe, S. H. ((2010, Jan 10)). "A Korean Doctors' Group Wants to Halt Abortions: Once a family matter, now a social issue". New York Times. Retrieved Retrieved 2019-06-14.. Check date values in:
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