South Korea laments birthrate drop from anti-child emphasis
South Korean officials are searching for ways to reverse a decline in the country's birthrate, concluding that a policy of denouncing more than two children per couple as "unpatriotic" has had adverse effects.
The push for a higher birthrate comes as some of South Korea's doctors have asked for forgiveness for performing illegal abortions for years and are working to cut the number of the abortions in the Asian country.
With South Korea's fertility rate at 4.5 children per woman in the 1970s, the government started encouraging fewer children, even offering exemption from mandatory army reserve duty if a man underwent sterilization....