The Supreme Court asked the Centre to amend abortion laws to allow rape survivors, including minors, to terminate pregnancies beyond 20 weeks, while strongly defending reproductive autonomy and refusing to force a 15-year-old rape survivor to continue her pregnancy
Supreme Court of India ruling on rape survivor pregnancy termination case urged law reform to allow abortion beyond 20 weeks in rape cases, stressing survivor choice and trauma. The court questioned AIIMS’ plea against terminating a 15-year-old’s 30-week pregnancy
Pilibhit: A woman, who was allegedly raped by her own step son for months and also her husband’s friends, has written a letter to President Draupadi Murmu seeking permission for ‘death by euthanasia. The 30-year-old woman has written that she has lost all hope for justice. She said in her letter that the police deliberately […]
Shahjahanpur: She was gang-raped at the age of 12 and it has taken her 28 years to get justice. The girl had become pregnant after the incident and gave birth to a boy. The boy, now grown up, demanded to know the identity of his father. The son went to court that ordered a DNA […]
