Unlike the Roe v Wade ruling in the US, Indian top court's order is being hailed as hugely progressive.
The decision to carry the pregnancy to its full term or terminate, they said, was "firmly rooted" in a woman's rights to her bodily autonomy and to choose the course of her own life and that an unwanted pregnancy could adversely affecct her entire life "by interrupting her education, her career, or affecting her mental well-being".
Along with giving all women equal rights and the right to choose, the court acknowledged that single women too have sex - a fairly exceptional idea in a deeply patriarchal country where women have little sexual autonomy, premarital sex is frowned upon,According to the last Census in 2011, India is home to 73 million single women
"The law in modern times is shedding the notion that marriage is a precondition to the rights of individuals and that changing social mores must be borne in mind when interpreting a law. As society changes and evolves, so must our mores and conventions. A changed social context demands a readjustment of our laws," the order said.Another reason why the judgement has made headlines in India is because of what it says about marital rape.
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