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Before 1971, abortion was criminalized under Section 312 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, [8] describing it as intentionally "causing miscarriage". [9] Except in cases where abortion was carried out to save the life of the woman, it was a punishable offense and criminalized women/providers, with whoever voluntarily caused a woman with child to miscarry [10] facing three years in prison and/or a ...
Country Rate per . 1,000 women per year Number of abortions per year Year Age range Greenland 84.7 870 2022 [7] [8]: 17–64 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 [9]: 15–49 Madagascar
However, women seeking abortion who are denied access to abortion have an increase in anxiety after the denial. [119] Although some studies show negative mental-health outcomes in women who choose abortions after the first trimester because of fetal abnormalities, [123] more rigorous research would be needed to show this conclusively. [124]
India's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies. Previously, under India’s abortion law, married ...
Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted female foeticide in various forms skewing the sex ratio of the country towards men. [5] According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0–6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981, to 105.8 in 1991, to 107.8 in 2001, to 109.4 in ...
A 10-year-old rape victim in India has been granted an abortion despite her pregnancy being around 20 weeks which is the legal time limit for the procedure.
Anti-abortion movements were led by a combination of groups opposed to abortion on moral grounds, and by medical professionals who were concerned about the danger presented by the procedure and the regular involvement of non-medical personnel in performing abortions. Nevertheless, it became clear that illegal abortions continued to take place ...
Even with a high rate of abortion in India, a study in 1996 showed 80% of Indian women (which did not separate by religious identification) disapproved and 56% considered it a heinous crime. [10] One of the social reasons for a massive number of abortions in India most likely includes the gender of the fetus.