Despite opposition from authorities as well as apathy in society, a hospital president in southwestern Japan is continuing to fight for the right for women with unintended pregnancies to be allowed to give birth anonymously.Takeshi Hasuda's Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto became in December 2019 the first facility in Japan to offer so-called confidential births. But he has been since told by local authorities twice that it is not clear whether such a system is legally allowed in Japan.It is not the first time his hospital has tested the boundaries around how to help women with unintended pregnan…READ FULL ARTICLE
