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No Lockdown for women’s rights – Poland shows the way

No Lockdown for women’s rights – Poland shows the way

Abortions happen every day, in every country of the world. Over half of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion, with WHO estimating that around…


Beyond First Trimester Abortions Services Amid COVID19

Beyond First Trimester Abortions Services Amid COVID19

The conservative estimates of limited accurate and evidence-based data shows that globally around 10-15% abortions take place during the second…


Can the Abortion Pill Really Be Everywhere?

Can the Abortion Pill Really Be Everywhere?

As a young reader of world literatures at university, I was first introduced to the tragic genre of ‘whore biography’ in Mary Wollstonecraft’s ​The…


Denial of abortion: Violating a woman’s right over her own body

Denial of abortion: Violating a woman’s right over her own body

Once liberal and way ahead of its time, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 has not been able to keep up with the evolving cultural,…


Defend the woman’s autonomy, right to choose

Defend the woman’s autonomy, right to choose

This article has been co-authored by Raunaq Chandrashekhar. India’s progressive stance on abortion is not practical as it doesn’t allow women the…


Women’s empowerment is incomplete without access to safe abortion, but this just got worse

Women’s empowerment is incomplete without access to safe abortion, but this just got worse

Women’s reproductive rights in general, and abortion in particular, have been the subject of intense debate globally. Even in countries where the law…


Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in “time warp”

Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in “time warp”

“A liberal Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed in India 48 years ago, in 1971. It has stayed in a “time warp” since, ignoring the…


World Population Day, 2019

Pratigya Campaign marks World Population Day with Social Media Campaign

Themed ‘Family Planning is a Human Right: Universal Access to SRH’, the Digital Campaign ensued for ten days, culminating in the Facebook Live event,…


Six Abortion Myths Busted

Six Abortion Myths Busted

“There is nothing wrong with Change, if it is in the right Direction”. Winston Churchill Over 3500 women die annually in India due to unsafe…