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World News: France became the first country to approve the abortion pill in 1988 and made abortion available in the year 2000 in the US and has now approved the abortion pill. After this, now Japan has also approved abortion pills. The abortion pill will be available in Japan for the first time after Japan’s health ministry approved a drug used to terminate early-stage pregnancies.
The health ministry on Friday approved the sale of the oral pill, the abortion pill, giving women an alternative to the surgical procedure in early pregnancy. Abortion is legal in Japan up to 22 weeks, but abortion usually requires consent from the spouse.
The ministry said in a notification to health authorities on Friday that it had approved an abortion drug made by Linepharma, The Guardian reported. The British pharmaceutical company had sought permission to sell mifepristone and misoprostol in Japan in December 2021.
The approval of the abortion pill to terminate pregnancy up to nine weeks came after the ministry’s panel endorsed it, which was postponed by a month.
National broadcaster NHK said the total cost of the abortion pill and a medical consultation would be around 100,000 yen (ã585). Abortion is not covered by public health insurance. The Guardian reported that the cost of a surgical abortion could be between 100,000 yen and 200,000 yen. Along with this, people in Japan were pushing for abortion pill.
According to The Guardian, emergency contraception cannot be purchased in Japan without a doctor’s approval. It is also the only drug that needs to be protected from the black market.
Japan had given permission to Mafigo
A subcommittee of the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council of the Japanese Ministry of Health had approved an abortion pill developed by Britain’s LinePharma International Ltd. – Mefigo Pill Pack, the Japan Times reported. The move was announced by the ministry after a review of 12,000 public comments collected online by a secondary panel.
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