All women, married or unmarried, have right to safe abortion under law, says SC

All women, married or unmarried, have right to safe abortion under law, says SC

The marital status of a woman cannot be a ground to deprive her of the right of abortion, the court said, while ruling that even unmarried women would be entitled to terminate an unwanted pregnancy within 24 weeks. The court said depriving single or unmarried women of the right to abort an unwanted pregnancy is a violation of fundamental rights.