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Supreme Court To Consider Single Woman's Plea To End 23-Week Pregnancy
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider listing the plea of an unmarried woman who was not allowed by the Delhi High Court to undergo medical termination of pregnancy at 23 weeks arising out of a consensual relationship.
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Abortions In India 20 Times Higher Than Estimated: Study
Some 15.6 million abortions take place in India each year, with the majority of women taking pills at home without adequate counselling, a study said on Tuesday, calling for more trained doctors in public hospitals.
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73 Per Cent Women In India Take Their Pharmacist's Help For Abortion: Study
Almost three out of every four women (73 per cent) in India who undergo abortion take the help of a pharmacist or an informal vendor, according to a study.
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Mumbai Gynaecologist Who's Helping Six Women's Plea For Abortion
Mumbai: They didn’t pop open boxes of sweets or send out excited phone messages when their first child was born at public hospital on a rainy Mumbai night in July. The couple had known from the 24th week of the pregnancy that their child would be born with Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome – a structural defect in the brain. Since abortions in Ind...
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Why Millions Of Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year
By Charu Bahri In 2008, Arti Chauhan (name changed to protect identity), mother of a 12-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year old girl, became aware that two pills – mifepristone and misoprostol – could induce an abortion, a procedure she considered when she got pregnant when her boy was just a year old. Ms Chauhan, 28, wife of a daily w...
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Supreme Court To Consider Single Woman's Plea To End 23-Week Pregnancy
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider listing the plea of an unmarried woman who was not allowed by the Delhi High Court to undergo medical termination of pregnancy at 23 weeks arising out of a consensual relationship.
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Abortions In India 20 Times Higher Than Estimated: Study
Some 15.6 million abortions take place in India each year, with the majority of women taking pills at home without adequate counselling, a study said on Tuesday, calling for more trained doctors in public hospitals.
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73 Per Cent Women In India Take Their Pharmacist's Help For Abortion: Study
Almost three out of every four women (73 per cent) in India who undergo abortion take the help of a pharmacist or an informal vendor, according to a study.
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Mumbai Gynaecologist Who's Helping Six Women's Plea For Abortion
Mumbai: They didn’t pop open boxes of sweets or send out excited phone messages when their first child was born at public hospital on a rainy Mumbai night in July. The couple had known from the 24th week of the pregnancy that their child would be born with Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome – a structural defect in the brain. Since abortions in Ind...
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Why Millions Of Indian Women Secretly Undergo Abortions Every Year
By Charu Bahri In 2008, Arti Chauhan (name changed to protect identity), mother of a 12-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year old girl, became aware that two pills – mifepristone and misoprostol – could induce an abortion, a procedure she considered when she got pregnant when her boy was just a year old. Ms Chauhan, 28, wife of a daily w...
