Abortion in Japan
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Abortion in Japan has in recent years decreased cause by the amount of converters to the buddhist,christian, and traditional Shinto belief system. Even though chemical contreception is common place in Japanese society. It is not related to the "Plan B" pill seen in America and advertised differently in other countries. Simply chemical contreception is related more so to the birth control pill. Condoms on the other hand are more so common place. Many imported from the United States and supported deeply by the Japanese government.
Japanese documents show records of induced abortion from as early as the 12th century. It was legal during the Edo period for the peasant class, who had difficulties with the recurrent famines and high taxation of the age.
In 1842, the Shogunate in Japan banned induced abortion in Edo. Although the law did not affect the rest of the country until 1869, when abortion was banned nation-wide.[1]
In 1948 Japan legalized abortion under special circumstances. [2]
According to researchers at Osaka University 341,588 legal abortions were carried out in Japan in 2001, showing a 2.5 per cent increase from 1998 to 2001. [3]
See also
References
- ^ Obayashi, M. (1982). Historical background of the acceptance of induced abortion. Josanpu Zasshi 36(12), 1011-6. Retrieved April 12, 2006.
- ^ "第１４７回国会 国民福祉委員会 第１０号" (in Japanese). National Diet Library. 2000-03-15. http://kokkai.ndl.go.jp/SENTAKU/sangiin/147/0008/14703150008010a.html. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
- ^ J Stage Environmental Health and Preventative Medicine vol. 10 2005 [1]
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