STATUS OF ABORTION LAWS IN INDIA

AUTHOR – BHUMIKA THAKUR, STUDENT OF GURU GHASIDAS VISHWAVIDYALAYA, BILASPUR (C.G)

Best Citation – BHUMIKA THAKUR, STATUS OF ABORTION LAWS IN INDIA, ILE JOURNAL OF WOMEN STUDIES (ILE JWS), 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 1-4, APIS – 3920 – 0059 | ISBN – 978-81-964391-3-2.

Abstract

The Article revolves around contemporary ideas of abortion laws prevalent in India. This Article quotes Abortion as a right of woman giving them full authority to decide their future and their privilege to give birth. This article portraits women as an individual entity who can decide their best and needn’t to be coerced by the society on the basis of their rituals and cultural beliefs. Abortion has emerged as a human right for them. Depriving such essential human right to them is discriminatory and violation of their basic human right i.e.  Right to life which also include right to privacy.

Abortion has evolved not just only a biological concept but a legal concept in the Article. A person should have right over their body. Anything done without their consent or on coercion should be purely illegal and arbitrary. A person exercising arbitrary authority over another person’s body should be punished under law. The Article upheld the idea of Abortion. This Articles clearly laid importance to their health, future, age and most importantly their consent. We shouldn’t forget to deprive a living person their human right while ensuring right to life to whom that is yet to be born.

Lastly, this Article tells about all the provisions, legislations and judicial decisions emerged in support of the idea of Abortion. However, it clearly emphasizes some areas where the need of development is felt.

Keywords – Abortion, Termination, Human rights, Miscarriage, Gestation