{"id":54740,"date":"2023-04-29T23:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/29\/japan-approves-abortion-pill-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-04-29T23:32:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:32:32","slug":"japan-approves-abortion-pill-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54740","title":{"rendered":"Japan approves abortion pill for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health ministry gives green light for two-step treatment to end pregnancies up to nine weeks<\/p>\n<p>The abortion pill is to become available in Japan for the first time after the health ministry approved a drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is legal in Japan up to 22 weeks, but consent is usually required from a spouse or partner, and until now a surgical procedure had been the only option.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/29\/japan-approves-abortion-pill-for-the-first-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health ministry gives green light for two-step treatment to end pregnancies up to nine weeksThe abortion pill is to become available in Japan for the first time after the health ministry approved a drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancies.Abortio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"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":[542,41,88,281,1792,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-women","category-womens-health","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\/54740","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\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54741,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54740\/revisions\/54741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}