Defeating Individual Choice: Linking Abortion & Marital Consent.
Posted in Constitution, Human Rights, india, Rights on Nov 10th, 2008
On Nov. 7, a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices Thakker & D.K. Jain held that an abortion by a woman without her husband’s consent will amount to mental cruelty and a ground for divorce. To quote the Hon’ble Bench, Mental cruelty is a state of mind. The feeling of deep anguish, disappointment, frustration in one [...]