New Laws in India Regulate Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy
Laws include some improvements, but gaps remain.
Laws include some improvements, but gaps remain.
Since the launch of the report Women of the World South Asia (2004), the Center has engaged in sustained efforts to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as human rights in India. This work has included several UN submissions, advocacy briefs and publications including most recently, on legal barriers to accessing […]
Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.
This week, the Parliament of India passed an amendment to India’s 50-year-old abortion law that fails to remove barriers to access and instead creates new ones. Following Presidential assent, per procedure, the amendment will become law. While increasing gestational limits, the amendment entrenches a harmful policy requiring women to obtain authorization by medical practitioners for all abortion care—even in the earliest […]
This week, India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020 (‘MTP Bill’) was introduced and passed by the Upper House of the Parliament. The Bill amends the 50-year-old MTP Act, 1971, which sets the conditions, gestational periods and regulations for when and how a pregnancy can be terminated. The Bill is expected to be signed […]
An amendment to India’s 50-year-old abortion law, proposed as “reform,” fails to remove barriers to access and instead creates new ones. The amendment entrenches a harmful policy requiring women to obtain authorization by a medical practitioner for all abortion care—even in the earliest stages of pregnancy—despite broad calls for its removal. And while the amendment increases some gestational limits, it institutionalizes third-party authorization for abortion […]
https://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 […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ending-Impunity-for-Child-Marriage-India-0218.PNG In 2006, India passed the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) to combat the widespread practice of child marriage. The PCMA prohibits the solemnization of child marriage below the age of 18 for girls and 21 for boys, and allows child marriages that have already been conducted to be voluntarily voidable by the child […]
Medical Panel in India Grants Legal Abortion to Pregnant 14-Year-Old Rape Survivor (PRESS RELEASE) Four gynecologists informed the Supreme Court of India today that they determined a 14-year-old rape survivor, known as X, should receive a legal abortion. Dr. Riddhi Shukla who examined the young girl said that continuing with the pregnancy “will pose a […]
Supreme Court of India Allows Medical Panel to Grant Legal Abortion to Pregnant 14-Year-Old Rape Survivor (PRESS RELEASE) Four gynecologists will determine whether a pregnant 14-year-old rape survivor can obtain a legal abortion, according to a ruling today by a two-judge panel in the Supreme Court of India. The young girl, known as X, was […]