Abortion in India – an Overview
This paper makes an overview of the abortion status in India from social, legal and ethical perspectives. From the social perspective, it considers the figures and the reasons for abortion prevalence. From the legal perspective, it briefly examines the legal framework within which abortions are perf...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill mentis, an imprint of the Brill Group
2023
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Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik
Year: 2023, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 293-300 |
| Further subjects: | B
rights of fetus
B Hinduism B Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act B unplanned pregnancies |
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| Summary: | This paper makes an overview of the abortion status in India from social, legal and ethical perspectives. From the social perspective, it considers the figures and the reasons for abortion prevalence. From the legal perspective, it briefly examines the legal framework within which abortions are performed in India. From the ethical perspective, it refers to the limited range of ethical debates on abortion in the country. This overview reveals that ethical considerations on abortion in India are done exclusively from the angle of the rights of women – rights of autonomy, health care, and safe abortion – not from the angle of the rights of the fetus. |
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| ISSN: | 0403-3884 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/29498570-20230024 |