{"id":265283,"date":"2023-10-19T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265283"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:33:20","slug":"denied-abortion-of-27-week-foetus-in-india-reproductive-autonomy-remains-a-pipedream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/denied-abortion-of-27-week-foetus-in-india-reproductive-autonomy-remains-a-pipedream\/","title":{"rendered":"Denied abortion of 27-week-foetus: In India, reproductive autonomy remains a pipedream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post has been created based on the article<strong> \u201cDenied abortion of 27-week-foetus: In India, reproductive autonomy remains a pipedream\u201d<\/strong> published in<strong> The Indian Express <\/strong>on<strong> 19<sup>th<\/sup> October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2014 Mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of the vulnerable sections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:\u00a0This article discusses the recent Supreme Court case on abortion of a 26-weeks old foetus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rest of the aspects of this news have been already covered in the following article: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-sc-questions-of-foetal-viability-and-rights-of-unborn-child\/\">https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-sc-questions-of-foetal-viability-and-rights-of-unborn-child\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contentious issue in this case was that it is a 26-weeks pregnancy, beyond the permissible gestational limit prescribed in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 2021.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the arguments in favour of allowing abortion in this particular case?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Her request was a matter of right over individual bodily autonomy, to exercise a reproductive choice, and seeking support from the State for safe abortion services. These demands have been endorsed by India in the <strong>1994 Cairo Declaration on Population and Development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Justice D Y Chandrachud\u2019s observation in the <strong>2022 Ms X case<\/strong> that \u201cevery pregnant woman has the intrinsic right to choose to undergo or not to undergo abortion without any consent or authorisation from a third party\u201d, underscoring <strong>reproductive autonomy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cDenied abortion of 27-week-foetus: In India, reproductive autonomy remains a pipedream\u201d published in The Indian Express on 19th October 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2014 Mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of the vulnerable sections. News:\u00a0This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/denied-abortion-of-27-week-foetus-in-india-reproductive-autonomy-remains-a-pipedream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denied abortion of 27-week-foetus: In India, reproductive autonomy remains a pipedream<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"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":[212,10500,8131],"class_list":["post-265283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-social-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":16,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698189474},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265283","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}