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This time, I'll look at it from a medical point of view. Today (11th), the Constitutional Court ruled that the period of pregnancy is important in determining abortion tolerance standards.

According to the opinion of the baby in the stomach from the time when there is survival ability, there are many opinions in foreign countries.

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When the fetus is 11 weeks pregnant, all body functions such as head and heart are created.

Pregnancy 22 refers to the ability of the fetus to survive when the Constitutional Court refers to abortion as a 'determinable period'.

I wonder if the fetus can survive by voluntarily breathing away from the mother or even helping with respiratory support.

In the medical world, the survival rate of the fetus was calculated by the survival rate of premature infants.

In the US premature infant in the 1990s, all fetuses born within 21 weeks died, 21% at 22 weeks and 30% at 23 weeks.

In the 1990s, preterm infants in the UK and Ireland also survived only 1% within 22 weeks, but survived 11% at 23 weeks and 26% at 24 weeks.

Based on these studies, the World Health Organization defined fetal viability as 22 weeks or more in pregnancy and over 500 grams in weight.

The three abortion tolerance standards, which are claimed to be simple unconstitutional, are the periods recognized by many nations such as the United States and Europe that the fetus can never survive on its own.

However, Sweden is set to 18 weeks.

However, there is a view that the condition of survival of the fetus is changing due to the development of medicine.

In fact, in 2000, 40% of fetuses born between 21 and 23 weeks of gestation were alive in Japan, and in Korea, 302 g of fetus smaller than the World Health Organization fetal survival standard of 500 g survived.

(Image editing: Seung Hee Lee)