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'Abortion rights are under threat'

Abortion always raises questions around rights and safety. Pregnancy has become a choice, thanks to various contraceptives in the market. Marie Stopes, the clinic that stepped in to offer safe abortion services in many countries all over the world is now facing a law and order issue in Cape, South Africa.

An order was dr marie stopesissued under health act that Marie SStopes clinic should apply for licence under health act in the state. But the health act is irregular and is in conflict with the Choice Act under which Mary Stopes function. The new process would affect in spirit and act the interests of women.

Government has always issued/rejected licenses to control rampant private practices in many countries. Be it health sector or whatever, government intervention into greedy private sectors always throws open big debates because both the parties fight against each other by keeping general public at the centre. Both shed tears for the poor and the common people. In such instances women are always in the receiving end. Here the issue at stake is her body, but she has no right to abortion. Even if she has access to it quality and safety is at stake in most of the times. We know abortion has always affected women’s health. But what to do when her fertility is not in her control? Even bearing babies is not her choice.

In India even in educated and well-to-do families the presence of a male child in a family is a must. So a woman in order to produce a male child is subjected to repeated pregnancies. The concept that maximum sexual pleasure is derived without condoms is another reason why there are so many unwanted pregnancies. Moreover young married women in many metro cities are also heard saying why will men wear condoms? A man wears condoms when he goes to a prostitute, they say.
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So it is evident that most women in India do not understand sexual health in the terms of right to health. In rural areas girls are married early and enter motherhood early. The norm of having two leads them to go for abortion until a male child is delivered. So abortion comes handy. As the government machinery to handle abortion is inadequate, the evil nexus among the companies that sell such equipments (to identify the sex of the foetus and conduct abortion) and greedy doctors, unethical politicians and superstitious population the business of abortion is booming and ofcourse at the cost of women’s health.
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