Abortion: Apex court lens on Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act
New Delhi, July 15 (UNI): Do women have the right to choice of reproduction? The Supreme Court will decide.
Three women, in a petition filed in the apex court, have claimed that the present Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act allows abortion only to save the life of the mother.
They also asserted that women should be given legally the right to abort and choice of reproduction.
The apex court on Monday decided to hear the Public Interest Litigation filed by the three women seeking its direction to decriminalise abortion.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, ruled: "We will hear and consider the petitions filed by the three women."
They had moved the Supreme Court seeking its direction to change certain stipulations, including certain rules to decriminalise abortion.
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