CHANGING CONTOURS OF ABORTION JURISPRUDENCE, WOMEN CONSENT IN THE WAKE OF THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2021v

India, sees death of approximately 10 pregnant women per day because of an unsafe abortion practice. This number, however, is usually higher decades ago than what it is today. The Shantilal Shah Committee, created in 1964 entrusted with task of working out a liberal and safest approach for adoption practices to fight with rising unsafe deadly abortions in the country and on report of committee “The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971” was passed subsequently to tackle the menace rising death. Recently parliament passed Amendment to the 1971, Act in 2021, seeking to further ease up and enlarge the horizon of lawful abortion. This Act itself and subsequent amendment over the years brings approaches in tune with making abortion accessible, lawful and secure. Nevertheless, the fineness of law does not inevitably correlate with the quality of deliverance. India’s healthcare sphere has a plethora of drawbacks which more frequently challenge the progressive policies adopted by the state. There are also the controversial issues of abortion for adolescents, as well as the notion that abortion should be a woman’s choice. This piecemeal of writing endeavors to investigate the Indian abortion regime in the wake of aforementioned issues, by looking into forces of infrastructure, social disgrace and convergence of medical and patriarchal prejudice underestimate the good that regulation can do.