Pratigya Campaign for Gender Equality and Safe Abortion is a network of individuals and organisations working towards protecting and advancing women’s rights and their access to safe abortion care in India. The campaign advocates with governments, organisations and media at the national and state levels on issues of women’s empowerment and women’s access to healthcare services. This report is divided into three chapters:
Chapter I A brief look at the Act, the context of its enactment, and inherent issues in its framework
Chapter II After reviewing the legal setup, the second chapter offers a quantitative and qualitative review of the findings from this study, supplemented by graphs
Chapter III The final chapter of this report offers concluding remarks and recommendations Annexure Briefs of select cases from three High Courts (Bombay High Court, Madhya Pradesh High Court and Gujarat High Court).

Assessing the Judiciary’s Role in Access to Safe Abortion An Analysis of Supreme Court and High Court Judgements in India from June 2016-April 2019: A Pratigya Campaign for Gender Equality and Safe Abortion Report