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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:30:36 +1000
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Rind wrote:

> I was wondering has anyone in this group every researched this topic
> for a college project or anything. I know that abortion exists in
> Japan, but I was wondering is there any stigma attached to it, are
> Japanese on the by and large pro-life or pro-choice, do Japanese people
> frown upon married women having abortions and so forth????

It's like Korea and China, a "family oriented" culture where the 
wholesale slaughter of fetuses is conveniently overlooked. At least they 
don't preferentially scrape out the female fetuses which has caused 
gross gender imbalances in other countries.