South Korea jails doctors for killing baby delivered at 36 weeks

2026-03-04 - 10:15

A South Korean court jailed two doctors on Wednesday for murdering a baby they delivered at 36 weeks of pregnancy and left to die in a freezer. South Korea has decriminalised abortion but political deadlock has prevented successive governments from passing new laws to regulate the practice. The infant’s mother, surnamed Kwon, sparked public outrage in 2024 when she posted a YouTube video claiming she had undergone an abortion at 36 weeks, a stage when most babies can survive outside the...