United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres pointed to Afghanistan where 'women and girls have been erased from public life' and said women's sexual and reproductive rights are being rolled back in many countries.
"It is unfortunate that the courts have to step in and women have to undergo the exhausting judicial exercise in pregnancy because the law is not rightly placed. It is unfair to subject women to further trauma and body...
A celebratory crowd of thousands bundled up on a raw Tuesday afternoon to watch President Joe Biden sign gay marriage legislation into law, a joyful ceremony that was tempered by the backdrop of an ongoing conservative...
With the new law, period products will now be offered free in schools and prisons, while state-run health centers will do the same with hormonal contraceptives and the morning after pill
Abortion March For Life, Anti-Abortion Protest iA small group of abortion rights advocates demonstrated at the building's gates, countering the national ‘March For Life’ gatherings, while carrying signs calling for...
A first-person account of the trauma and travails an unwed woman undergoes when she visits one of the country’s top hospitals for the procedure
The Delhi court established that it was a woman's right to say 'yes' or 'no' to pregnancy and depriving a sexual assault victim of MTP is equivalent to depriving her of the right to live with dignity.
The 15 states included in the survey are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Doctors can perform abortions on minor females without being liable to disclose identity to police on the request of minors and their guardians.
Marital rape has always been a taboo subject in India however its gaining prominence among modern Indians, with a lot of them wanting it to be criminalized.
The distinction between married and unmarried woman for the purposes of the MTP Act is artificial and constitutionally unsustainable and it perpetuates the...
Progressive verdicts by courts help the cause of gender justice. But a lot remains to be done. Despite laws like protection of women from domestic violence...
There are quite a few landmark judgments which, while not resulting in the expected social transformation, have made a beginning simply by acknowledging the...
While socio-economic and medical structural barriers continue to pose challenges, criminalisation of abortion through a restrictive legal framework creates a...
India was among the first countries to develop legal frameworks that guaranteed access to abortion and contraception, yet there are impediments in women and...
While some suggest that reproductive legislation in India is largely empowering, others see it as debilitating, exclusionary and restrictive
Sometimes women also go through an emotional conflict before getting an abortion even though they know it is a practical thing, and something they are choosing...
Musician John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen tragically lost their little boy Jack late into the model's pregnancy two years ago and though the singer said...
Musician John Legend, who bagged the award for Best R&B Album for 'Bigger Love' at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, is voicing his support for abortion access...
Women in India, both married and unmarried, can abort pregnancies after 12 weeks and within 20 weeks. From 20-24 weeks, in case of abortion, the opinion of two...
Despite India's relatively liberal abortion law, access to services is hampered by service provider bias and stigma and thousands of women resort to unsafe...
Despite the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 2021 allowing all women in India to abort a foetus up to 20 weeks of pregnancy and 24 weeks for women under...
Around 40 petitions seeking termination of pregnancies under 20 weeks were filed in different Indian courts between 2016 to 2019 after doctors refused to...
Although abortion in India has been legal under various circumstances since the introduction of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act in 1971, we look...
Singer Cher has told how she was left "screaming in pain" when she suffered a miscarriage in her teens.
