Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik · 2023 · 49 citations · 2 references
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The paper provides an overview of abortion status in India from social, legal, and ethical perspectives. It examines social prevalence figures and reasons, the legal framework governing abortions, and the limited scope of ethical debates in the country. The review finds that ethical discussions in India focus solely on women's rights—autonomy, health care, and safe abortion—without addressing fetal rights.
Abstract 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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The incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy in India, 2015
Susheela Singh, Chander Shekhar, Rajib Acharya et al. · The Lancet Global Health · 2017 · 321 citations · Full text