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India’s abortion law seems liberal but is driven by a population control logic – not women’s rights -Mytheli Sreenivas

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The MTP Act disregards women’s health and rights to regulate reproduction at all costs.

With its decision to end constitutional protections for abortion in the recent case of Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court made that country a global outlier on abortion law and policy. At a moment when many governments around the world are liberalising their regulation of abortion care, the US has opened the door to banning legal abortion outright.

India, where the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act was recently amended to allow abortion procedures until 24 weeks of gestation, and even later in case of “substantial fetal abnormalities”, seems to occupy the opposite end of the spectrum of abortion regulation. However, the contrast between a supposedly liberal law in India, and a more restrictive one in the United States, is not quite so simple.

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