Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study
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 aim to center the experience of women and girls seeking safe abortion services in India and highlight the challenges they encounter, especially in interactions with the public health system.
Based on on-the-ground evidence, the report makes recommendations for a rights-oriented legal framework on safe abortion in India, including its full decriminalization and reframing abortion within the framework of right to life with dignity, right to health, reproductive autonomy, privacy, and equality. The report also calls for comprehensive audit of medical education curricula and working with the public health system to address abortion stigma.
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