LEGAL FRAMEWORKS AND ITS IMPACTS ON ABORTION IN INDIA WITH A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ABORTION LAWS IN U.S
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The capacity of women to give life to an individual places her in both advantageous as well as disadvantageous position. But the question is whether a woman has right to terminate her pregnancy. Abortion is another word used for the act of termination of pregnancy. It means killing of the fetus when it is in the mother’s womb. Abortion can be of two types- either spontaneous or induced. Spontaneous is known as miscarriage, while induced simply means that termination of a pregnancy which is planned. In medical language abortion means termination of pregnancy prior to the fetus attaining the stage of visibility. The cause for abortion can be social, economic or due to the health conditions of the woman as well. Though there are many legal restrictions which have been imposed to prohibit this heinous crime, there has been no reduction in the number of induced abortion in practice.
The paper focuses on the rights of the pregnant woman and also on the unborn child i.e, whether a pregnant women has right to terminate her pregnancy over the right of an unborn child to its life. It also makes a comparative study of the abortion laws in India and U.S.A and how effective are these laws in both the countries.
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