Mon Nov 7, 2022 – 4:02 pm ESTMon Nov 7, 2022 – 4:32 pm EST
(Live Action) – The Public Health Ministry in Thailand has approved a measure allowing abortions to be committed through 20 weeks of pregnancy, extending a previous law and putting more preborn lives at stake.
Last year, a proposal legalizing abortion through 24 weeks failed, but politicians approved abortions through 12 weeks gestation. Less than two years later, that limit has already been extended, even though preborn children were protected completely from abortion as recently as 2020.
Yet abortion advocates are still not satisfied, as an editorial from the official editorial board in the Bangkok Post showed. “While the policy signals a favourable tide for women’s rights, government resources and manpower do not,” the board complained. “According to National Human Rights Commission figures for the first half of this year, most pregnant women who intended to terminate their pregnancy still lacked the information needed to obtain safe and legal abortion services.”
In Thailand, 95 percent of the population is Buddhist, and with the first precept stating, “I undertake to refrain from taking a life.” Therefore, it’s no surprise that most Thai doctors refuse to commit abortions. “Many doctors and nurses
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