Inconvenient FACTS

Inconvenient FACTS

Every day in the Republic of Korea 1,000 to 4,000 women chose to Abort. Some close advisers have cautioned the KWB, "don't get into THAT, too emotional of a subject", well, I disagree.

Abortion is directly related to the issues such as lack of sexual education, sexual violence against women, Foster Care in Korea, over-crowded institutions, Teenage runaways who are sexual exploited into prostitution mainly for Korean men...

ALL these social ILLS of Korea ARE relevant and interlock. Listen to this expert on Sexual Violence:

Kim-Min Hye Jung of "Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center" spoke on "Patriarcy, Normality, and their Implications in Women's Sexuality".

"Overseas adoption was a foreign subject to me when ASK asked me to speak at their symposium (May 2009 "Alternatives to Adoption: Building a Movement for Change"). However, when I heard of the various problems relating to overseas adoption and the causes as well as the need for solution, I came to realize that the issue was much alike that of anti-sexual violence."

Now most people would have said, "What does sexual violence HAVE to do with overseas adoptions?" Ms. Kim-Min presented many facts on how the issues DO interlink.

In fact the entire ENGLISH report of the May 2009 Symposium by ASK (Adoptees Solidarity Korea) will be posted soon by the Korean War Baby for "inquiring minds" that TAKE THE DAMN TIME TO LEARN. Oops, TAKE THE DARN TIME TO LEARN...

I remind you of these

DAILY FACTS CONCERNING "Unborn" and BABIES BORN TO UNWED MOTHERS

EACH DAY- According to Government figures 1,000 women chose to terminate/abort. Doctors from Pro-Life groups claim that they know the numbers are higher based on the drugs issued...They claim the number is a staggering 4,000 per DAY. Recent activities promoted by the government policy shift has driven the cost of a "procedure that cost 300,000 won (

270 USD) to over 1,000,000 won (899 USD) in Clinics and up to 2 million won (1,798 USD) in major hospitals. AND that is NOT exactly good since the level of medical care in China is WAY below Republic of Korea, sorry my Chinese friend but keeping it real.

They are taking advantage of the "legal risks" from being reported of doing "illegal abortions" has driven the MARKET PRICE up and some reports are that Korean women are going to China for the abortions. Hospitals, Clinics, and some doctors are "making a Killing" in just the last two months.

Korean women who had 'unexpected' and 'unwanted' pregancies can choose solutions from the period of time just after "unprotected sex" using Morning After pills NoReBoWon or Plan B meaning that plan A birth control measures were not used...Let it be said for the record, again, the KWB does not hold anger towards these women, though he hates abortion he does feel anything but sorrow for the 50% of child bearing women of Korea who have had at least ONE or MORE "procedures".

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*DAILY RECORDS*

Every DAY in 2007, 21 babies were born to Unwed Mothers (7,774)

Seven (7) were kept by the mothers (32%);

3.4 babies & children were sent Overseas/ICA;

3.6 babies were DOMESTIC adoptions (meaning through thru the Four Adoption Agencies approved by government).

THIS account for 14 babies

What happened to the other 7 babies under a year old? They are not accounted for...Korean couples have FIRST choice up to FIVE months before a baby can be considered for adoption OVERSEAS or InterCountry Adoptions.

Why, if I speak like a fool (many times I DO), "THESE ARE PRIME PRODUCTS!! Highly prized by Prospective Adopters (phrase used by those Anti-Adoption Associates), the YOUNGER the BETTER, RIGHT?"

Forgive me for ranting, or being passionate,
Lord forbid that I get EMOTIONAL...BUT

Where did these SEVEN BABIES GO?

*CIVIL COURT ADOPTION*

Many have heard of the Dutch government official who adopted a Korean girl, then after two Natural SONS were born the couple abandoned the child in Hong Kong. No? well go here or here TIME magazine. This was a CIVIL court adoption where a Jeong Mae or Matchmaker usually for marriage also KNOWS women who are pregnant and for a big fee finds a couple wanting a more DISCRETE way to adopt, not through the FOUR Adoption Agencies with their pesky 'background checks' and forms to fill out. IT HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED but the numbers are hidden, lamented many experts at the last Korean Women's Development Institute's FORUM in February, 2010. Why no one knows, they all said, even Census questions need to ferret out the Unwed Mothers from Single Divorced Head of Household women. WHEW, see how everything RELATES to each other?

These are the daily number of 7 babies that the Korean War Baby believes were adopted through CIVIL Court Adoption by Korean families who can now make them as Natural children...SECRETLY and on the family Hojuk (Family Registry) were allowed by LAW to put them as NATURAL BORN. Recently, the Hojuk system has been changed again to allow INDIVIDUAL Registration, but in the FAMILY RECORDS the Adoption is KEPT TOTALLY well almost totally secret. It is Known by most of the older family members of the extended relatives.

In both Domestic (3.6 babies per day and the 7 babies per day in CIVIL Adoptions the SECRECY is 97%, they are NOT told they were adopted. THIS IS WRONG on many levels.

In light of these facts the notion that by merely stopping the 1,250 children sent in 2008 to Overseas adoption, which are composed of Special Needs, older children, and Left-Overs from Civil and Domestic adoptions, DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEMS at all.

THE QUESTION THEN MUST BE, IF YOU STOP INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION,

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE CHILDREN?