5/22/2023 0 Comments Nivedita menon feminism![]() ![]() In the West, this right has always been challenged and circumscribed by the Christian right-wing, and feminists there even today, have to struggle to retain it. There is a complicated relationship between abortion as such and the selective abortion of female foetuses. ![]() I conclude by stating my own position on the issue, which is not necessarily the position taken by the movement as such. I outline here the main contours of feminist debate and activism over close to three decades, that have circled around complex understandings of ethics and agency in the context of women’s control over their bodies. I am concerned here with the more troubling question of how to understand a situation in which women themselves decide to have sex selective abortions. In any case, there the focus was on women who were forced to have abortions after sex determination, on which there is little to debate. ![]() In my discussion of this dilemma, I would like to move away completely from Satyamev Jayate, the television programme, (on which a discussion has been initiated by Shohini Ghosh on ). This dilemma is one with which the women’s movement in India has been grappling since the late 1980s. ![]()
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