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Leading South Korean prelate calls for unconditional ban on abortion
October 16, 2020
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CWN Editor's Note: 7% of South Korea’s 51.6 million people are Catholic, 27% are Protestant, 25% are Buddhist, and 11% are Confucian, while 14% belong to new religious movements. The government recently announced it would permit abortion before the 14th week of the unborn child’s life, after the nation’s high court declared a 1953 law against abortion unconstitutional.
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