The Supreme Court of India recently ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, have the right to safe and legal abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. The court also expanded the definition of rape to include marital rape and clarified the rights of minor girls in cases of marital...
Confidentiality: This judgment clarifies that while the need to report mandatorily remains, the identity of thepregnant personneed not be disclosed in the cases of consensual sexual activity and where the minor and/or her guardian request the medical service provider to maintain confidentiality. Relief...
Results: 75(90%) out of 83 adolescent girls undergoing abortions included in the study were unmarried. More than 50% of unmarried girls had a friend or fiancee as their sex partner. Incest was responsible for pregnancy in 16% cases. 11% teenage girls were undergoing abortion for second or ...
Some have attempted compromises, suggesting that abortion is wrong except in certain cases, such as when the woman has become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, or when carrying a child to term will endanger the health of the mother. Many opponents of abortion urge women with unwanted ...
A malformed fetus was the indication for TOP in 5.9% cases, and 16% of the women had medical disorders associated with the pregnancy. Suction evacuation was the method of choice for first-trimester abortion (88%); dinoprostone gel and extra-amniotic saline solution plus oxytocin infusion were ...
Relevant Cases:-Evil of female foeticide is not creation of tomorrow but lies in root of Indian society and worsening day by day due to which Indian judiciary has also to come forward to control practice.Vinod Soni & Anr. v. Union of India-Mumbai high court rejected the argument of ...
Forcing a woman to keep a pregnancy resulting from these cases constitutes additional trauma which affects her physical and mental health...” In terms of reproductive health consequences, WHO experts noted that women who experience physical, sexual, and/or emotional IPV are at even greater risk ...
In this care, selective abortion was successful at saving the mother and the remaining embryos. However, selective reduction is recommended often in cases of multi-fetal pregnancy, or the presence of more than one fetus, typically, at least three or more fetuses. In the general population, ...
An advocate petitioned India's supreme court, which has now asked the government to consider setting up permanent medical boards in every state for swift termination of pregnancies in exceptional cases involving child rape survivors. "I am happy India will now possibly have a medical board in eve...
A sudden increase in cases prompted the authors to analyze this problem. Method: A retrospective review was done of 11 cases of bowel injury following induced abortion seen over 2 years at Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India. Results: Young, married women of low ...