Some Japanese women lawmakers have requested the health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa to resign on Monday for calling women ‘birth-giving machines’ in an earlier speech.
Nearly sixteen lawyers put signatures across the protest letter tagging it as a violation against women’s human rights. Thus, insisting on resignation of the minister on the issue.
Yanagisawa’s statement, ‘the number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed. Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head’, have ignited sparks from opposition parties as well as from the ruling bloc.
In order to make his point clear, Yanagisawa said, ‘I used such an expression to make it easier to explain about population projections. It was really inappropriate.’
