Abortion in India


Abortion in India has been legal under various circumstances for the last 50 years with the introduction of [Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act in 1971]. The Act was amended in 2003 to enable women's accessibility to safe and legal abortion services. #Yokoe R, Rowe R, Choudhury SS, Rani A, Zahir F, Nair M. Unsafe abortion and abortion-related death among 1.8 million women in India. BMJ Glob Health. 2019 May 2;4(3):e001491. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001491. PMID 31139465; PMCID: PMC6509605.
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