West Bengal: HC allows woman to terminate 29-week pregnancy because the foetus has Down Syndrome

The court said the woman has a right to life with dignity too.

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· Feb 18, 2019 · 10:38 pm

‘Autonomy to choose’: Why not all Catholics are happy with Argentina rejecting legal abortion

Many young women who are active churchgoers insist on their right to make decisions about their sexuality and when and how to become mothers.

Verónica Giménez Béliveau, The Conversation

· Aug 13, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Indonesia: Minor girl jailed for 6 months for abortion, brother who raped her gets 2 years

She got the abortion six months into her pregnancy, whereas Indonesian law prohibits it after six weeks.

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· Jul 22, 2018 · 04:08 pm

‘Modern laws for a modern people’: Ireland votes overwhelmingly to repeal anti-abortion law

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the win for the ‘yes’ side was the ‘culmination of a quiet revolution in Ireland’.

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· May 26, 2018 · 05:58 pm

All you need to know about Ireland’s referendum on legalising abortion

The country votes on May 25 on an issue that has divided the electorate for decades.

Claire Pierson, The Conversation

· May 24, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Bombay High Court allows woman to end 28-week pregnancy after doctors find foetal abnormalities

The judges said it would not be right to ask the mother to continue with the pregnancy as the child, once born, will have to fight life-hampering disabilities.

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· Jan 10, 2018 · 07:53 am

Only woman has the right to give birth or terminate pregnancy, husband’s consent not needed: SC

The Supreme Court upheld the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s 2011 ruling that the woman’s family and doctors cannot be held liable for the abortion.

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· Oct 28, 2017 · 07:28 pm

Punjab and Haryana High Court allows abortion at 26 weeks for minor who was raped

A medical team said the abortion could be undertaken, despite her pregnancy being at an advanced stage.

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· Oct 18, 2017 · 05:25 pm

Supreme Court allows woman to abort 31-week-old foetus with kidney problems

Doctors from JJ Hospital in Mumbai said that the foetus’ condition was not ‘compatible to life after birth’.

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· Oct 08, 2017 · 11:30 am

Ireland: Thousands march in Dublin against law banning abortion

Irish women seeking to abort, even in cases of rape, must travel abroad as the Constitution gives an unborn child an equal right to life as its mother.

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· Oct 01, 2017 · 11:53 am

Supreme Court allows Pune woman to abort 24-week-old foetus without a skull and brain

Doctors from the BJ Government Medical College said there was no treatment available for the foetus’s condition.

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· Aug 31, 2017 · 04:11 pm

Supreme Court sets up medical board to examine woman with 24-week-old foetus without a skull

In her plea, the 20-year-old said that the underdeveloped child, if born alive, may not survive.

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· Aug 28, 2017 · 08:13 pm