Abortion Laws
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Explain abortion process to pregnant minors in language they understand: Delhi HC to medical boards
The court was hearing a plea of a 25-week pregnant 16-year-old, who refused to undergo abortion fearing that she could die in the process.
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US Supreme Court stays Texas judge’s ruling, preserves access to abortion pill
This means that people can continue to access the drug, mifepristone, while a lawsuit is pending.
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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Being anti-choice is a cultural and political decision, not a Biblical one
The Bible is silent on the question that bedevils the US.
Sean Winter, The Conversation
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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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‘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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