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Francis recounted the story of a a very beautiful woman who was inordinately proud of how she looked. (Photo: AFP)

Abortion to save looks: Pope Francis takes aim at beauty cult

Catholic teaching considers abortion as akin to the most heinous of murders.

11 Jan 2017 5:44 PM IST

The girl was raped inside a car on Thursday.

Delhi: Raped minor delivers baby in school toilet

The girl was repeatedly raped by auto-rickshaw driver Abdul Gaffar (51), who is also her neighbour.

23 July 2017 6:20 AM IST

Unsafe abortion is the third biggest cause of maternal deaths in India.

Let medical experts decide on abortion

Are we such a sexually repressed society that man must turn into a monster?

30 July 2017 12:15 AM IST

The CSR fell drastically due to the technology enabling pre-conception and pre-natal sex determination and sex selective abortion becoming easily available.

Doctors: Abortion best if there is threat to mom, kids' life

The medicos said that the babies with abnormalities, in many cases, have not been able to survive.

29 July 2017 2:32 AM IST

The CSR fell drastically due to the technology enabling pre-conception and pre-natal sex determination and sex selective abortion becoming easily available.

Four move Supreme Court for aborting abnormal foetus

The SC granted permission to one of them, a 21-year-old Mumbai homemaker to abort her foetus.

29 July 2017 2:29 AM IST

Ulla Muller at a health facility

Contraception and safe abortion are key to women's growth

Since the Beijing Conference on women's rights in 1995, promises have been made for upholding women's rights. It is high...

6 April 2017 1:42 AM IST

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Maha: Govt hospital doctor under scanner for illegal abortion racket

It was found that this doctor was simultaneously running her own private hospital which itself is illegal.

5 April 2017 1:12 PM IST

Teacher raped teenager twice, impregnated her.

Bombay HC quashes father's plea for abortion

Terminating pregnancy in the 26th week could pose a danger to her life.

15 Jun 2017 1:10 AM IST

To make it easier for women to seek safe abortion, the government has also suggested doing away with the necessity of second opinion. (Photo: Pixabay) (Representational image)

SC denies nod to woman to terminate her 26-week foetus

The bench said, the foetus is "likely to have mental and physical challenges" but the advise of the doctors does not...

28 Feb 2017 12:24 PM IST

A doctor performing an abortion in such a case could face a fourth-degree felony charge and physicians could lose their licenses. (Photo: Pixabay)

New Ohio law bans Down Syndrome abortions

The law has been introduced in a bid to promote the lives of people with Down syndrome as lives worth living.

25 Dec 2017 12:40 PM IST

The positioning of sex selection versus access to abortion is not only misplaced, it immensely harms womens physical and emotional health.

India's abortion wars

A woman must have the right to decide whether she wants to continue a pregnancy or not. A woman's decision about her own...

17 April 2017 6:26 AM IST

File picture of the Bombay high court.

Bombay HC allows rape victim to abort 26-week foetus

A division bench of Justice Shantanu Kemkar and Justice Girish Kulkarni was hearing both cases.

6 Dec 2017 1:18 AM IST