CHANGING CONTOURS OF ABORTION JURISPRUDENCE, WOMEN CONSENT IN THE WAKE OF THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021v

This number, however, is usually higher decades ago than what it is today. The Shantilal Shah Committee, created in 1964 entrusted with task of working out a liberal and safest approach for adoption practices to fight with rising unsafe deadly abortions in the country and on report of committee “The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971” was passed subsequently to tackle the menace rising death.

Recently parliament passed Amendment to the 1971, Act in 2021, seeking to further ease up and enlarge the horizon of lawful abortion. This Act itself and subsequent amendment over the years brings approaches in tune with making abortion accessible, lawful and secure. Nevertheless, the fineness of law does not inevitably correlate with the quality of deliverance.