Safe and legal abortion is a woman's right

Mumbai: 10th August 2011

Over 250 activists and groups have protested against the recent suggestions by two MLAs in the Maharashtra Assembly that “female foeticide” be treated as murder. A letter sent to Speaker Dilip Walse Patil, at the initiative of the Forum Against Sex Selection (FASS), a network of 22 organisations and over 16 individuals, expressed concern at the statements made by Pankaja Munde-Palve (BJP) and Jitendra Avhad (NCP) that female “foeticide” be treated as murder and culprits be booked for the offence of murder under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The letter said that first of all abortion should not be referred to as foeticide, which had anti-abortion implications.

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