{"id":45030,"date":"2022-05-31T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/japan-to-approve-abortion-pill-but-partners-consent-will-be-required"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:36:20","slug":"japan-to-approve-abortion-pill-but-partners-consent-will-be-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45030","title":{"rendered":"Japan to approve abortion pill \u2013 but partner\u2019s consent will be required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delay in approving pill, and the possible $780 cost, reflect priorities of male-dominated parliament, say critics<\/p>\n<p>Women in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> could be forced to seek their partner\u2019s consent before being prescribed the abortion pill, which will reportedly be approved late this year \u2013 three decades after it was made available to women in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Under Japan\u2019s 1948 Maternal Protection Law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/japan-urged-to-abolish-third-party-consent-from-abortion-law\">consent is already required<\/a> for surgical abortions \u2013 with very few exceptions \u2013 a policy that campaigners say tramples over women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/reproductive-rights\">reproductive rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/japan-to-approve-abortion-pill-but-partners-consent-will-be-required\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delay in approving pill, and the possible $780 cost, reflect priorities of male-dominated parliament, say criticsWomen in Japan could be forced to seek their partner\u2019s consent before being prescribed the abortion pill, which will reportedly be approved&#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":[41,88,79,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-society","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030","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=45030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030\/revisions\/45031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}