Center and Partners Outline Ways to Increase Abortion Access in India
Manual launched by the Center and partners outlines India’s abortion laws, barriers to access, and reforms needed.
Manual launched by the Center and partners outlines India’s abortion laws, barriers to access, and reforms needed.
Supreme Court rules safe and legal abortion under Indian law applies to all women, regardless of marital status.
The Center’s Sara Malkani discusses a significant abortion ruling by India’s top court.
Amendment to India’s 1971 law a step forward, but gaps remain.
This Center factsheet, released in September 2022, outlines and analyzes India’s 2021 MTP Amendment Act, which aimed to reform the country’s 50-year-old abortion law, the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
Published collaboratively by Center for Reproductive Rights and South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI), this paper outlines the existing public health standards and the current human rights standards on abortion including medical and self-managed abortions.
Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.
Through a field-based study in four states–Delhi, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu–the “Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study” aims to understand and document the way in which the Indian Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, and other laws operate as barriers to accessing safe abortion care. The study and the report […]
The Center for Reproductve Rights worked for several years to support the efforts of women and civil society organizations in Ireland to secure reform of Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law. Their decades of efforts culminated in 2018 when the Irish electorate voted by a resounding majority to remove the prohibition on abortion and Irish law […]