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Mixed-Race Pregnancies Aborted
North Korea guilty of forced terminations.
The United Nations has recently heard testimony from a North Korean delegation which told The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) that North Korea was still practicing forced abortion.
Female detainees in North Korean detention centers and labour camps are carefully screened for pregnancy because mixed-race children and children conceived out of wedlock are illegal and subject to compulsory abortion.
The delegation admitted to the United Nations that such illegal pregnancies are aborted, but added if an illegal child is brought to term, it has the same rights as any other Korean child. However, refugees reported that pregnant women too far along for abortions are subjected to violence intended to induce miscarriages. Witnesses also reported infanticide of illegal children. The delegation offered no evidence or conflicting testimonies to bolster its denials.
