The Supreme Court on Thursday extended the right to safe and legal abortion to all women, irrespective of their marital status, up to 24 weeks of pregnancy under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
The milestone judgment also for the first time recognised marital rape, strictly under the purview of the MTP Act. It said that marital rape has to be classified within the meaning of “rape” in order to save women from forceful pregnancy.
Delivering its judgment, the bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud, A S Bopanna and J B Pardiwala said that the right to reproductive choice