Delhi HC allows abortion at 25 weeks for pregnant minor, issues guidelines to police

The High Court directed the police to ensure that the complainant is produced before a medical board on the same day if she wishes to terminate her pregnancy.

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· Jan 27, 2023 · 10:00 am

Woman’s right to make decision and not medical board’s: HC allows termination of 32-week pregnancy

‘Given a severe foetal abnormality, the length of the pregnancy does not matter,’ the Bombay High Court ruled.

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· Jan 23, 2023 · 05:00 pm

Choice of mother ultimate in cases involving fetal abnormalities, says Delhi High Court

The court made the observation while allowing a 26-year-old woman to terminate her pregnancy of 33 weeks.

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· Dec 06, 2022 · 02:29 pm

SC notes need to ‘fine-tune’ provisions to allow unmarried women abortion till 24 weeks of pregnancy

The court, however, reserved its verdict on the interpretation of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

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· Aug 24, 2022 · 11:53 am

India’s abortion law seems liberal but is driven by a population control logic – not women’s rights

The MTP Act disregards women’s health and rights to regulate reproduction at all costs.

Mytheli Sreenivas

· Jul 29, 2022 · 09:00 am

Cannot deny woman provision to abort at 24 weeks only because she is unmarried, Supreme Court rules

High Court took an ‘unduly restrictive’ view of the law by not allowing the complainant to terminate pregnancy, the judges said.

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· Jul 21, 2022 · 05:49 pm

Unmarried women pregnant from consensual sex cannot seek abortion after 20 weeks, says Delhi HC

The bench said such a situation is not covered under any clause of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules.

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· Jul 16, 2022 · 05:47 pm

Being anti-choice is a cultural and political decision, not a Biblical one

The Bible is silent on the question that bedevils the US.

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· Jul 09, 2022 · 11:30 pm

US Supreme Court overturns landmark Roe vs Wade ruling that protected right to abortion

Now, individual states can ban abortion in the US. At least 29 states are expected to act on the Supreme Court’s ruling soon.

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· Jun 24, 2022 · 09:01 pm

‘Authentic but not final’, says US Supreme Court on document leak showing probable abortion ban

The draft, which indicates that the country’s top court could overturn a judgement making abortion a constitutional right, has sparked widespread protests.

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· May 04, 2022 · 07:09 pm

US judge suspends law banning most abortions in Texas

He described the legislation as an ‘offensive deprivation’ of a constitutional right.

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· Oct 07, 2021 · 04:18 pm

HC allows woman to terminate 25-week pregnancy, says courts must not function in a narrow manner

The Punjab and Haryana High Court said the courts must have a broader perspective of human sufferings, bonds and desires.

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· Dec 29, 2020 · 12:08 pm