{"id":199577,"date":"2022-08-10T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199577"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:41:01","slug":"a-fuller-right-sc-offers-hope-that-right-to-abortion-wont-be-restricted-by-a-womans-marital-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-fuller-right-sc-offers-hope-that-right-to-abortion-wont-be-restricted-by-a-womans-marital-status\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fuller Right: SC offers hope that right to abortion won\u2019t be restricted by a woman\u2019s marital status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cA Fuller Right: SC offers hope that right to abortion won\u2019t be restricted by a woman\u2019s marital status\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express <\/b>on\u00a010th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the recent court judgement on abortion.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently the Supreme Court of India delivered a significant order, that the right to a medical abortion could not be denied to unmarried women.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the case?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Read more: <\/strong>A law, without a flaw: on availing abortion services<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the reasons behind the court ruling permitting abortion for an unmarried woman?<\/h5>\n

1) <\/b>The 2021 Amendment to the MTP Act<\/strong>, no longer restricts itself to an unwanted pregnancy between a \u201chusband\u201d and \u201cwife\u201d, but to a woman and her \u201cpartner\u201d, by marriage or not, 2)<\/strong> S Khushboo case, 2010<\/strong>: In this case, the court recognised the legality of live-in relationships and pre-marital sex, 3)<\/strong> Suchita Srivastava case, 2009<\/strong>: In this the court recognised woman\u2019s right to make reproductive choices is part of the \u201cpersonal liberty\u201d guaranteed under Article 21, 4)<\/strong> K S Puttaswamy case, 2017<\/strong>: In this, the court reaffirmed that women\u2019s right to bodily integrity is part of the fundamental right to privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, 2020 \u2013 Associated Issues<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The US court recognised that the constitutional rights are interconnected: Unravel one and the entire edifice of protections could fall apart. Now, the SC offers hope that the right to abortion won\u2019t be restricted by a woman\u2019s marital status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cA Fuller Right: SC offers hope that right to abortion won\u2019t be restricted by a woman\u2019s marital status\u201d published in the Indian Express on\u00a010th\u00a0August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Relevance: About the recent… Continue reading A Fuller Right: SC offers hope that right to abortion won\u2019t be restricted by a woman\u2019s marital status<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-199577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}