Volume : 6, Issue : 4, April - 2017

Right To Abort: Mother�s Perspective

Ritupriya Gurtoo

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color:#333333">Abortion has always been a contentious subject in India. <span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">While in India legalised abortion is allowed under Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971 this privilege is clouded by a limit of 20 week. Under the veil of giving women rights, this Act denies a women in exercising her &lsquo;choice&rsquo; to abort, if foetus abnormalities are discovered beyond the prescribed limit of 20 weeks. While court refusing to engage with the larger question of declaring 20 weeks threshold as unconstitutional and the government not inging any amendments in the present Act, the present law denies the women of their right to body autonomy, which is a basic human rights. This article is an attempt to raise a fundamental question of the right of women to choose whether to continue or abort beyond 20 weeks without being tied down by religious, ethical or legal rules.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/FAIZ%20MUNSHI/Desktop/APRIL%202017/GJRA/180.RITUPRIYA%20GURTOO%20ONLINE.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#333333;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[1]</span></b></span></span></a></span></i></p> <div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->< clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/FAIZ%20MUNSHI/Desktop/APRIL%202017/GJRA/180.RITUPRIYA%20GURTOO%20ONLINE.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:&#10;107%;font-family:&quot;Calii&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="EN-IN"> Ms Ritupriya Gurtoo, Assistant Professor, Department of law, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div>