nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/41b437064b3e88d3 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240417s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/41b437064b3e88d3 doi eng 342 23 Pillai, Gauri Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6856-9303 India’s Push-and-Pull on Reproductive Rights Pillai, Gauri Verfassungsblog 2024-04-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier For a piece mapping India’s push-and-pull on reproductive rights – the expanse of its protection and the edges it comes up against – history is a good place to start. Rights in the reproductive sphere are relatively new to India. While India enacted a seemingly liberal abortion legislation as early as 1971, concerns about women’s rights were hardly the drivers behind it. Women’s bodies were a means to achieve the State’s end of population control. It is difficult to justify if women were truly seen as rights-holders. Did this change in recent years? CC BY-SA 4.0 Human Rights India India Reproductive Rights (DE-588)1236319109 gnd India Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/indias-push-and-pull-on-reproductive-rights/ raw object