Abortion in Japan is legal under a term limit of 22 weeks for endangerment to the health of the pregnant woman, economic hardship, or rape. It was first legalized in 1948 under the Eugenic Protection Law initially for health and eugenic reasons, and later expanded to include economic hardship, which made it function quite broadly in practice.
Abortion in Japan is legal under a term limit of 22 weeks for endangerment to the health of the pregnant woman, economic hardship, or rape. It was first legalized in 1948 under the Eugenic Protection Law initially for health and eugenic reasons, and later expanded to include economic hardship, which made it function quite broadly in practice.
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