[News Terms] 'Boho Chulsanje' Allowing Mothers to Hide Identity During Childbirth

The 'Protected Birth System' is a system that helps mothers give birth while keeping their names and other personal information confidential, and it is also called the 'Anonymous Birth System.'

This system is being promoted to prevent unmarried mothers in crisis pregnancies who are reluctant to register births, undocumented foreign migrants, births resulting from affairs, rape, or incest, and refugees from avoiding medical institutions and giving birth or abandoning their babies in unsafe conditions.

The government is promoting the introduction of a protected birth system. The German-style system, which guarantees both the right to privacy of biological parents and the right of children to know their origins, is considered the most likely option.
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According to the special law on the Protected Birth System, which was introduced by Kim Mi-ae, a member of the People Power Party, in December 2020, mothers can give birth at hospitals while concealing their identities, and the newborns are immediately separated from the mothers and become children eligible for adoption. The records of the mothers are managed by the Child Rights Protection Agency, and the children can access these records with the consent of their biological parents once they reach adulthood. This system can be described as one where the state registers the birth and arranges adoption on behalf of mothers who give birth anonymously.

Representative countries that have introduced the Protected Birth System include Germany and France. Germany introduced it in 2014 under the name 'Trust Birth System,' and France, which has the highest birth rate in Europe, introduced the Anonymous Birth System in 1941.

According to the National Police Agency, over the past 10 years (2013?2022), there have been 85 cases of infant homicide and 1,185 cases of infant abandonment. Each year, 100 to 200 babies are abandoned in baby boxes.

On the 26th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and others reported that the government is promoting the introduction of a birth notification system to prevent 'ghost children' and the Protected Birth System to prevent births outside hospitals, following the confirmation of 2,236 unregistered children over the past eight years. The German-style system, which guarantees both the biological parents' right to privacy and the child's right to know their origins, is considered the most likely model for the Protected Birth System.

However, there is significant opposition arguing that it infringes on the child's right to know their parents and encourages mothers to abandon child-rearing, so difficulties are expected until actual implementation.

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