The country's abortion laws and attached requirements have recently sparked a reckoning.
Last year, one Japanese woman was imprisoned because she left her newborn in a park, after being forced to give birth because she couldn’t get in contact with the man who had impregnated her toreports there have been several cases of doctors denying abortion care to people who had been sexually assaulted, despite how the requirement supposedly allows an exception for rape.
This, of course, isn’t exactly surprising. It’s not clear how victims seeking to invoke the exception in Japan are to “prove” they were raped, but here in the US, most abortion restrictions andrequire victims to report and prove their rape to law enforcement—despite how the vast majority of sexual assaults are unreported.
As if, to Tsukahara’s point, being forced to remain pregnant and give birth against your will isn’t violent enough, the power that the partner consent law accords to possibly abusive men over their victims is staggering.
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