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The case has gripped South Korea, where there is no regulation on how far into pregnancy an abortion can take place.
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The woman wanted to terminate the pregnancy at 36 weeks - but prosecutors said the baby was born alive and later killed.
The surgeon who operated on her and the director of the hospital were sentenced to four and six years in prison respectively, while the woman received a three-year suspended jail sentence.
The case has gripped South Korea, where abortions are not regulated properly. The procedure was decriminalised in 2019, there is no clear regulation on how far into pregnancy it can be carried out.
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The trial against the woman, in her 20s and identified by her surname Kwon, and her doctors marks the first time that murder charges have been pressed against women seeking a late-stage termination of their pregnancy, and the doctors involved in the procedure.
Prosecutors in Kwon's case said the baby was born alive through a Caesarean section and placed in a freezer until it died.
She argued that she did not know the procedure would be carried out that way.
In 2024, Kwon posted a YouTube video about how she terminated her pregnancy at 36 weeks. The video triggered public uproar and a criminal complaint from the health ministry. Police then launched an investigation into her and her doctor.
Prosecutors said that after the woman's baby was born alive, the hospital's director and the surgeon put it into a freezer, where it died.
The hospital staff then falsified Kwon's medical records to make it look like she had a stillbirth, prosecutors said.
During the trial, the hospital director and surgeon admitted to killing the baby. They were taken into custody immediately after the judge read out the verdict.
The hospital had allegedly received a total of 1.4 billion won to perform abortions on more than 500 patients, prosecutors said. Their patients, like Kwon, had been introduced
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