![Reassessing India’s Abortion Laws: A Call for Change](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/abortion_1693662915.jpg)
Nearly two decades ago, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment in Suchita Srivastava & Anr vs Chandigarh Administration. The judgment stayed the orders of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, which had ruled that a ‘mentally retarded woman‘ who was raped while residing in a government-run welfare institution in Chandigarh should undergo a [...]