South Korea woman and doctors guilty of murder after killing newborn baby

Teona Gherasim

A South Korean court has convicted a woman of murder after she delivered a baby that was later killed. The woman had wanted to terminate the pregnancy at 36 weeks. The surgeon who operated on her and the director of the hospital were also found guilty of murder. They were sentenced to four and six years in prison respectively. The case has highlighted the legal limbo surrounding abortion regulations in South Korea after its Constitutional Court struck down a ban on the procedure in 2019. Since