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Supreme Court urges centre to remove time limits on abortions for pregnant rape survivors, rejects AIIMS plea against order allowing abortion of minor rape...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday (30 April 2026) urged the Central government to amend the law and eliminate gestational time restrictions for abortions in...
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‘No court can force minor to carry pregnancy against her will’: Supreme Court allows 15-year-old to abort 7-month foetus

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The court also made it clear that this right cannot be weakened by putting unnecessary restrictions, especially in cases involving minors and unwanted pregnancies.
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Punjab and Haryana HC upholds married woman’s right to get pregnancy terminated without consent of her husband

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The High Court noted that the petitioner had a turbulent relationship with her husband and had divorce proceedings going on.
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‘Read Namaaz, eat beef, keep Roza’: Ahmed Raza tortured daughter of the Hindu family where he was a driver; took her jewelry, forced her...

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The Hindu woman from Basti district of Uttar Pradesh has said her family's driver Ahmed Raza sexually assaulted her at knife point, and coerced her into converting to Islam after a fake marriage.
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Maharashtra: Woman dies after botched abortion at home, husband, father-in-law arrested, mother-in-law booked too

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According to the police, the investigation revealed that the four-month-old foetus was buried in the family's farm.
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Gujarat: Woman impregnated, assaulted and abandoned by Hussain after she refused to convert to Islam, extorted lakhs from her, his father also molested her

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Hussain gave her tablets to abort her first two babies and then left her with the third child because she refused to convert.
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Saifuddin rapes Hindu woman in Bahrain, deceives her to abort 5-month fetus and forces her to embrace Islam, torments her for dowry

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Hindu woman raped in Bahrain by Saifuddin, tricked into aborting 5-month fetus, and forced to convert to Islam
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Uttar Pradesh: Afaq seduces a Hindu woman in the name of a job and marriage, forces her to embrace Islam, abandons her after the...

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Afaq told the victim to abort their baby and impregnated her again. However, he then left her to marry a second woman.
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Love Jihad in Rajasthan: Rashid pretends to be Hindu, repeatedly rapes girl in name of marriage, impregnates her and forces her to abort

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Rashid Khan has been booked under sections 376, 313, 419, 506 and 366 of the Indian Penal Code for perpetrating love jihad.
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‘My body my choice’: France makes abortion a constitutional right, parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour

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Notably, after the US Supreme Court in 2022 reversed the Roe v. Wade ruling that recognised women's constitutional right to abortion, a campaign was started in France to explicitly protect the right in its basic law.
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