{"id":37394,"date":"2021-09-27T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/japan-urged-to-abolish-third-party-consent-from-abortion-law"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T08:30:07","slug":"japan-urged-to-abolish-third-party-consent-from-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37394","title":{"rendered":"Japan urged to abolish third-party consent from abortion law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions amount to \u2018sexual assault\u2019 on women by  Japanese state, say rights campaigners<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/womens-health\">Women\u2019s health<\/a> campaigners have urged Japan\u2019s government to amend a law that forces married women to seek consent from their husbands before they can have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is one of only 11 countries that require third-party consent for abortions, despite calls to end the practice by the World Health Organization and other groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/japan-urged-to-abolish-third-party-consent-from-abortion-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions amount to \u2018sexual assault\u2019 on women by  Japanese state, say rights campaignersWomen\u2019s health campaigners have urged Japan\u2019s government to amend a law that forces married women to seek consent from their husbands before they can have an abo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,41,346,88,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-japan","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37395,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37394\/revisions\/37395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}