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Abortion law

  • Supreme Court rejects plea seeking termination of 30-week pregnancy

    Supreme Court rejects plea seeking termination of 30-week pregnancy

    Scroll Staff
    · May 15, 2024 · 07:53 pm
  • SC asks AIIMS to check if medicines taken by woman seeking abortion have affected foetus’ health

    SC asks AIIMS to check if medicines taken by woman seeking abortion have affected foetus’ health

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 13, 2023 · 05:55 pm
  • Need to balance mother and unborn child’s rights, says SC on plea to abort 26-week pregnancy

    Need to balance mother and unborn child’s rights, says SC on plea to abort 26-week pregnancy

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 12, 2023 · 04:29 pm
  • The big news: Marital status cannot be reason to deny abortion, says SC, and nine other top stories

    The big news: Marital status cannot be reason to deny abortion, says SC, and nine other top stories

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 29, 2022 · 08:53 pm
  • The big news: US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion, and nine other top stories

    The big news: US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion, and nine other top stories

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 24, 2022 · 09:43 pm
  • Centre to allow abortion till 24 weeks of pregnancy for some categories of women

    Centre to allow abortion till 24 weeks of pregnancy for some categories of women

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 13, 2021 · 07:28 pm
  • The long road to justice for a rape survivor in UP, and 4 more weekend reads

    The long road to justice for a rape survivor in UP, and 4 more weekend reads

    Dakshayani Kumaramangalam
    · Sep 26, 2021 · 09:30 am
  • Supreme Court to examine validity of abortion restrictions, issues notice to Centre

    Supreme Court to examine validity of abortion restrictions, issues notice to Centre

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 15, 2019 · 07:38 pm
  • Haryana: 10-year-old Rohtak girl whose stepfather raped her is allowed to have abortion

    Haryana: 10-year-old Rohtak girl whose stepfather raped her is allowed to have abortion

    Scroll Staff
    · May 17, 2017 · 03:32 pm