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omen in their attitudes toward fertility regulation. Only 50.5 percent of Catholic women in the survey disapproved of abortion, while the comparative figure for non-Catholic women was 26.4 percent. There was a lack of strong religious influence on fertility ascribed to strong familism and the relatively short history of Catholicism and Protestantism in Korea.

The government took a hand in fertility control policy beginning in 1961. The government then announced that it would undertake a national family planning program, and the following year it established and began to operate a national program under the direction of the Ministr

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