
Is the Indian judiciary heralding a new age of feminist jurisprudence?
Is the Indian judiciary heralding a new age of feminist jurisprudence? In September this year, the Supreme Court of India, while hearing a woman’s petition to permit the termination of their pregnancy, remarked that, “reproductive autonomy requires that every pregnant woman has the intrinsic right to choose to undergo or not to undergo abortion without any consent or authorization from a third party”.[1] In times when reproductive rights are facing severe threats globally, th