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Abortion and Supreme Court: A contrast between two democracies
October 03, 2022 6:51 pm
India's Supreme Court has interpreted the right to life in an expansive manner, including in the recent verdict. In contrast, the highest court in US has taken the wrong lessons from history in its verdicts on abortion and gun control
The welcome message from Supreme Court: Not all women are cis-women
October 02, 2022 4:29 pm
Conceiving the idea of a pregnant person as gender-neutral is a significant step forward in acknowledging the health and reproductive rights of transgender and gender diverse persons.
Supreme Court judgment on MTP Act: A promise of inclusion and the long road ahead
October 02, 2022 4:21 pm
Avali Khare writes: The judgment fails to ease the traumatising process of seeking abortion services. Most infrastructural facilities operate in the gender binary, misgender transgender persons, and are insensitive to their needs. Unless the abortion laws speak to all pregnant people, they will continue to subject transmen, transmasculine people, and non-binary people to harassment.
On abortion, Supreme Court takes a step forward but doesn’t go far enough
October 01, 2022 12:49 pm
Angellica Aribam writes: It does not read down the pre existing laws that are a barrier to complete bodily autonomy for pregnant persons, such as requiring the opinion of registered medical practitioners before accessing abortion
Why Supreme Court's abortion verdict must be read by Indian gynaecologists who live under a rock
September 30, 2022 6:12 pm
A visit to the gynaecologist means answering intrusive questions about your marital status. The Supreme Court judgment on access to safe abortion offers hope of change
On abortion, Supreme Court has listened to women
October 04, 2022 6:16 am
Jayna Kothari writes: It has upheld the right of all women to make their own reproductive decisions. It has recognised that deprivation of access to reproductive healthcare affects the dignity of women
Supreme Court judgment on abortion stands out as an exception in gender autonomy jurisprudence
September 29, 2022 7:36 pm
Whether on hijab or marital rape, constitutional courts in India and abroad have upheld regressive social norms at the cost of women's autonomy
Access to abortion: Where women still don’t have a say
July 24, 2022 8:40 am
Shreya Shree writes: Although the Court cited Roe v. Wade and spoke of women’s “right to make reproductive choices”, it found the provisions of the MTP Act to be “reasonable restrictions” on the exercise of this choice.
Rule preventing unmarried women from abortion after 20 weeks challenged, Delhi HC seeks Centre’s response
July 16, 2022 10:52 am
Delhi High Court dismissed a 25-year-old unmarried woman’s plea seeking permission for termination of a pregnancy of 23 weeks and 5 days
City body of doctors opposes amending MTP Act, writes to health ministry
November 12, 2014 4:49 am
The association said that stress should be laid more on training the staff for contraception techniques.
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