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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maroosha Muzaffar

Japan politician apologises for remark about ‘women removing their uteruses after 30’

Naoki Hyakuta - (Naoki Hyakuta/YouTube)

The leader of a minor Japanese opposition party apologised on Sunday for mentioning a hypothetical idea that women have their uteruses removed after turning 30 so they feel they have a “time limit” on childbirth.

He seemed to suggest during a discussion on the country’s declining birth rate that this might make women choose to have children earlier.

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