Women “would have their uteruses removed when they turn over 30,” Naoki Hyakuta, leader of the Conservative Party of Japan, said in a stream on his YouTube channel on Friday.
On the channel, he also said that he would make it law for “women who are single after 25 years old not to be allowed to marry.”
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Later, Hyakuta posted an apology on his X account. “I cannot deny that the expressions were too harsh,” he said. “I apologize for those who were offended.”
Free tube tying for everyone above 25? I knew about some villages in poor rural India and african countries that did this to limit teen pregnancy and over population. The complete opposite of what Japan is dealing with
I read uterus removal, not tube tying. Maybe a pedantic difference, but is he explicitly trying to highlight the threat value for the statement?
Odds are, neither the politician, nor the translator know the difference.
Free tube tying is really different from forced removal of a healthy organ, which is just mutilation.