(LifeSiteNews) — A South Korean woman who posted a video to YouTube about the born-alive abortion of her eight month-old baby, and the doctors who committed it by putting her baby in a freezer, have been indicted for murder.
“We will do our utmost to ensure that all profits obtained through this crime are fully confiscated, to send a strong message against such inhumane acts driven by financial gain and a disregard for life,” the prosecutors said in a statement.
The Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of South Korea announced Thursday that they have indicted a hospital director surnamed Yoon, a surgeon surnamed Shim, and a woman surnamed Kwon on murder charges, according to Asia News Network, for placing a baby born through C-section in a freezer.
There are currently no laws in South Korea regulating abortion, and the murder charges against those involved in the YouTuber’s abortion stem from the fact that the baby was born alive before being killed.
This case came to light when Kwon posted a video to YouTube sharing about her abortion at 36 weeks, considered full-term according to medical guidelines in the country.
Prosecutors said hospital employees falsified medical records in an attempt to hide the murder and make it appear as though the baby was born dead, a stillbirth.
Abortion was decriminalized in South Korea as of January 1, 2021, after South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned an abortion ban that was enacted in 1953. The court had recommended new abortion laws with a term limit of 22 weeks, but the country’s legislature failed to meet its deadline, giving free reign to the brutal, baby-killing practice of abortion.
Abortion not only snuffs out the lives of an untold number of babies in South Korea – it contributes to the country’s abysmally low birth rate. In fact, South Korea has for years held the distinction of having the lowest birth rate in the world. As of 2024, its birth rate was 0.75, far lower than replacement rate.
