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Don't Make It Worse

The Most Traumatic Thing About Abortions Is the Judgment

...had to be cured.” Cynthia’s account, like countless other people who have gotten abortions, doesn’t fit the majority rhetoric surrounding abortions. Borne out of a perceived religious and moral turpitude...

Abortions: Visualizing the Data on One of the Most Fraught Topics in Women’s Health Care

...abortions the third leading cause of maternal death. This very resolvable obstacle becomes all the more pressing when seen against the statistics on the prevalence of abortions, and the consequences...

By Pallavi Prasad

Abortion Is A Right

Rwanda Releases 52 Women Jailed for Seeking Abortions, But Does Not Reverse Punitive Anti‑Abortion Laws

...4000 women approximately, the Guardian reported. Plus, a significant number of Rwandan hospitals are run by religious trusts, and so, refuse to offer abortions on grounds of faith. Unless abortions...

1.3 Million Indian Women Lost Access To Birth Control, Abortions During Pandemic: NGO

...was closed, while for several others, the wait time for abortion appointments were above five weeks. Time is a crucial element in abortions. In India, abortions are allowed until the...

By Devrupa Rakshit

No More Forced Births

Trump Administration Plans to Extend Policy That Cuts Funding To Global Health Projects Providing Abortions

...1984 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. It required foreign NGOs to certify that they will not promote or perform abortions as a method of family planning as a condition to...

Indian Women Seeking Abortions Are Petitioning the Courts, Even When They Don’t Need To

...the fact that they reached court is a cause of worry and points towards the difficulties women face while accessing abortion. Related on The Swaddle: Abortions: Visualizing the Data on...

By Anubha Rastogi

India’s Abortion Laws: How Far They’ve Come, and How Far They Still Have to Go

...and the number of unsafe abortions, i.e abortions performed outside a facility using methods that are not recommended, are now estimated to be only 5% of all abortions in the...

By Pallavi Prasad

Why Can’t Unmarried Women Access Abortions in India?

How do gender and class impact access to premarital abortions in India? Dr. Amrita Nandy, gender scholar, explains....

Why Do Indians Resort To Sex‑Selective Abortions?

Why is India one of the only countries in the world with a skewed sex ratio? Dr. Mary John, Professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, explains....

Self-Constructed Pedestals

After Roe V. Wade Overturning, Indians Are Rushing to Prove Their Superiority. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous.

...between abortion and sex-selective abortions. Terms like ‘female foeticide’ attributing personhood to fetus instead of ‘sex-selective abortions’ are used interchangeably and create confusion,” noted journalist Neha Dixit. Sex-selective abortions by...

By Saumya Kalia

The MTP Bill Would Put Doctor Panels in Charge of Approving Late‑Stage Abortion; It’s Unfeasible and Unnecessary.

...adds to the financial burden on pregnant persons. The inaccessibility of abortions in the public sector also means that pregnant persons may be compelled to resort to unsafe abortions, which...

By Dipika Jain & Kavya Kartik

Indian Chemists Are Not Stocking Medical Abortion Pills Anymore, Putting Millions of Women at Risk

Chemists are increasingly choosing not to stock Medical Abortion (MA) pills, with more than 40% incorrectly believing that abortions are illegal in India, according to a new study by Pratigya...

By Pallavi Prasad

No Uterus No Opinion

No, Ministry of Health, a Fetus Is Not a ‘Vulnerable Person’

...day as a consequence, on an average. Doesn’t that just prove that when you restrict access to abortions, you only restrict access to safe abortions? The solution, then, is not...

By Pallavi Prasad

India Needs More Abortion Providers. Let the MTP Bill Enable Them.

...all abortions in India are unsafe, leading to 10 deaths each day. Out of the many causes of maternal mortality, unsafe abortion is the only one that is entirely preventable....

By Kiran Kumbhar

Abort Exclusion

Govt Allows Abortion up to 24 Weeks in ‘Special’ Cases, But The Law Is Inadequate

...weeks of pregnancy. This is an extension from the previous gestation limit as per the original 1971 Act, which allowed abortions only up to 20 weeks. Previously, one medical practitioner...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Fundamental Rights

Abortion Is Legal in India, But Not Enough Women Know It

...prescribed through the seventh week of pregnancy. The largest proportion of abortions in these states — from 63% to 83% of abortions, in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, respectively —...

By The Swaddle Team

Aborting Justice

Body Matters: Navigating Abortion in India

...stress, pain, and anxiety over abortions. Doctors fail to uphold even bare minimum standards, leading to complications. Before the procedure: The standard protocol that doctors should follow is taking a...

By The Swaddle Team

Power Of Protest

Unprecedented Protests Force Poland to Pause Abortion Ban

...around 1100 legal abortions and around 150,000 illegal abortions, according to what Krystyna Kacpura, the executive director of the Federation for Women and Family Planning (FEDERA), told Foreign Policy. Related...

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