Center’s New Factsheet Explains Recent Changes to the Abortion Law in India
Amendment to India’s 1971 law a step forward, but gaps remain.
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.
Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ensuring-Reproductive-Rights-India-0218.jpg In May 2017, the Supreme Court of India denied a medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) to Z., a 35-year old woman from Patna, Bihar living with HIV who became pregnant as a result of rape. Z. was homeless and discovered that she was 17 weeks pregnant and HIV positive when she was admitted into […]
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Philippines Contraception Conflict reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FI_Philippines_Contraception_Conflict.jpg The third time was not a charm in the Philippines. So on August 7, the Philippine government will make a fourth attempt to pass a family planning law, this one allowing health officials to provide free birth control and encourage families to have no more than two kids. The Catholic Church […]
India Pushed to Prioritize Women’s Health reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/India-HP.jpg Late last week, India came under pressure during its review before the U.N. Human Rights Council for continually failing to make the health of women and girls a priority. The Council, a body of countries that peer-review other countries’ human rights records, specifically pointed to India having the […]
By Melissa Upreti, Senior Regional Manager and Legal Adviser for Asia As the U.S. Congress launches one of the most vicious attacks against women’s health in recent history, the Supreme Court of Nepal has officially issued a groundbreaking decision on women’s reproductive rights that turns on its head patriarchal notions of the government’s right to […]