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India’s top court broadens abortion rights for unmarried women
NEW DELHI: India's top court widened abortion rights on Thursday by ruling that all women could end their pregnancy up to 24 weeks from conception, abolishing restrictions placed on unmarried mothers.Abortions have been legal in India since 1971, the year reforms permitted terminations in various instances including contraceptive failure among married couples.The marriage requirement was removed in an overhaul of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act last year, which also saw the legal abortion limit raised from 20 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.But the amended law did not explicitly guarantee abortion rights to unmarried women after 20 weeks to account for the new limit -- a guarantee the Supr

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