In contrast to the US Supreme Court, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India led by Justice DY Chandrachud (as he then was) ruled that all women, whether married or not, have equal rights to access abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation, in compliance with the provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971.
Prior to this ruling, the MTP Act permitted abortions up to 20 weeks (on the advice of one medical practitioner), and up to 24 weeks in certain specific cases. These include cases of minors, pregnancies resulting from rape, women experiencing changes in marital status, women with certain mental/physical disabilities, fetal malformation, or pregnancies in emergency situations.
Source: Barandbench
