SheThePeople reached out to two lawyers who have been litigating on MTP cases to understand the realities of the women who reach out to courts to access their right to abortion.

The Supreme Court on Monday made a landmark judgment, coming to the aid of a 24-week pregnant woman from Mumbai, giving her permission to undergo medical termination due to a certain abnormality in the foetus (underdeveloped). The Supreme Court granted the life-saving abortion as the woman was in a highly critical situation. A bench, comprising Justice […]

The Kerala High Court has ruled that a rape survivor will now be eligible for medical termination of pregnancy. The ruling comes on the heels of a petition filed by a woman from Kasaragod. After the Government Hospital in Kasaragod and the Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode rejected her request for medical termination, the woman […]