Hi Mahima! I enjoyed reading your article. I live in Texas, so it greatly upset me to hear about the new abortion law. Similar to what is happening in India, this forces a lot of women to obtain unsafe, illegal abortions and risk traveling to different states. Female infanticide in India is also a huge problem, and it saddens me to learn that abortion rights laws can create conditions to promote this. Do you think, socially at least, things are changing in India, at least for younger generations?
I am so sorry for the late reply on this. I do think that things are changing, but too slowly and for too few of us. Very few women have access to education and the financial means that empowers them enough to take these decisions about their own bodies themselves. And I think the doctors in our country who would do such a procedure without judgment are even fewer, so the number of unsafe abortions remain high for societal rather than legal reasons in India.
Hi Mahima! I enjoyed reading your article. I live in Texas, so it greatly upset me to hear about the new abortion law. Similar to what is happening in India, this forces a lot of women to obtain unsafe, illegal abortions and risk traveling to different states. Female infanticide in India is also a huge problem, and it saddens me to learn that abortion rights laws can create conditions to promote this. Do you think, socially at least, things are changing in India, at least for younger generations?
I am so sorry for the late reply on this. I do think that things are changing, but too slowly and for too few of us. Very few women have access to education and the financial means that empowers them enough to take these decisions about their own bodies themselves. And I think the doctors in our country who would do such a procedure without judgment are even fewer, so the number of unsafe abortions remain high for societal rather than legal reasons in India.