The Supreme Court of India's judgement on 29th September, 2022, held that unmarried
women have the same right to abortion as married women. The Medical Termination of …

In collaboration with Ipas India, the Centre for Health, Law, Ethics and Technology at Jindal
Global Law School presents this report on legal judgments and orders relating to medical …

Reform of the abortion laws in favour of the wellbeing of pregnant women is one aspect of
the removal of gender discrimination. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP Act) …

While granting a prisoner the right to abort her foetus, a recent Bombay High Court judgment
recognised a woman's absolute right to abortion. This article discusses the judgment in …

Conclusion The Indian Supreme Court has developed strong jurisprudence on reproductive
rights. In the landmark privacy judgment, 3 Justice Chandrachud stated that reproductive …

Abortion laws in India, like other laws, are premised on the 1861 British Penal Code. The
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed in 1971 to circumvent the criminality …

Abortion has always been a vital issue in reproductive and legal medicine. Globally, medical
termination of pregnancy (MTP) is allowed primarily on six grounds:(1) to save the life of a …

Abortion was legally made available in India through the Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Act 1971, which permitted the pregnancy to be terminated under specific criteria, such as: to …

Access to abortion is desperately needed when pregnancy is the result of rape, both within
and outside marriage, and especially when a girl has been raped. The availability of …

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