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India’s Proposed Abortion “Reform” Fails to Undo Barriers to Access
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 […]