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Local Church•Pro Life

S Korean bishops discuss abortion law with lawmakers

Bishop Moon of Cheju, chairman of the Bishops’ Conference’s Committee for Family and Life, met with Democratic Party lawmakers who are promoting a bill that the Church sees as a path towards unlimited abortions. The issue came to the fore in 2019 after a ruling by the Constitutional Court. For Bishop, “We must move towards respect for life.”

Religious Freedom

WHO Continues Attack on Conscience Rights

According to the authors of the review, in the eleven countries they surveyed, they were unable to “identify any country or setting where conscientious objection was regulated in a way that was effective in ensuring the availability and accessibility of abortion in practice.”