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Can minor rape survivor access medical treatment before justice?

Post author By Collective
Post date November 11, 2020
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On 18th July, 2017 Chandigarh District Court refused to let a 10 year-old, minor rape survivor access abortion services. She was 26 weeks pregnant. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,2017 does not allow women to abort foetuses beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court directed the PGI Hospital in Chandigarh to set up a medical board […]

Tags Child rape Survivors, Govt Hospitals, Minor, MTP, PGI, Rape, Sexual Abuse

Access to Safe Abortion Thought Leadership

Telemedicine and Abortion: India says Yes or No?

Post author By Collective
Post date April 17, 2020
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COVID-19 has brought all of us to a standstill. It is highly unlikely that we no longer take things for granted after witnessing first hand how interconnected all our lives are. What would otherwise have been a skip, hop and jump to the pharmacy near our house to get, say a basic Paracetamol tablet, has […]

Tags Abortion, abortion pills, India, MTP, telemedicine