Conflict between ‘Morality’ and ‘Choice of Woman’ on abortion
It is estimated that in India more than seventy thousand young women die every year undergoing an unsafe abortion. It is mainly because they cannot avail the facilities of the legal termination of their pregnancy for various reasons. It must be fresh in the memory of the most of the people of India that way back in 2012, a young 31-year-old Indian Dentist Savita Halappnawar died at the Galway Hospital in Ireland due to the complication of a septic miscarriage as she was denied an abortion. The untimely death of the young woman because of the insane and mindless laws of the Ireland, guided by the Catholic belief, led to worldwide agitation. Savita was seventeen weeks pregnant. Despite knowing the fact that she was carrying a ‘still’ child in her womb, the Hospital did not allow the abortion. Even the plaintive scream of the young promising Dentist with excruciating pain could not move the Hospital Doctors to save her life in the