Something too awful to be true is happening in Japan.
An online conference of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology was held yesterday, where it was announced that LinePharma's clinical trial was successful, and an application is expected to be filed for approval of the abortion drug by the end of this year.
However, the results of the study showed that more than half of the women complained of abdominal pain and nausea as if the abortion pills were dangerous, and as if to show the dangers of this drug to the Japanese people who have a strong bias against abortion pills.
At the same time, a survey of abortions conducted in 2019 by Japanese doctors designated under the Maternal Protection Law (a group of doctors who can legally perform abortions) was announced. Their report confirms that the safety of abortion in Japan (where D&C is heavily used) has increased even more than in previous studies.
The doctors designated by the Maternal Protection Law also conducted an abortion survey in 2012, but the content of the survey was self-serving, and it was clear that they conducted the survey to produce results that were convenient for themselves, as I revealed in a paper I published this spring.
Then, the results of the 2012 survey, which was funded by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (and therefore must be disclosed to the public), suddenly disappeared from the MHLW database. This proves that not only the pharmaceutical companies and doctors but also the MHLW is in on it.
If this continues, even if the abortion pill is approved, women in Japan will only be able to get it at a ridiculously high price, or worse, they may be forced to take it in front of a doctor, or even worse, hospitalized, which some doctors have implied.
Under the pandemic of COVID-19 since last year, there have been a series of incidents throughout Japan where young women and poor foreign workers have given birth to their children in public toilets and abandoned them. In Japan, it costs a lot of money to have an abortion or to give birth.
At the end of March last year, Japan's former prime minister suddenly and single-handedly ordered a blanket vacation for elementary, junior high, and high schools, and around May, the number of calls from young girls for "pregnancy counseling" skyrocketed. Furthermore, the number of suicides among young Japanese women peaked in October. What this means can only be speculated, but I suspect that not a few of the young women who committed suicide were those who had unwanted pregnancies.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20210422_25/
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