Reproductive Rights of Women-An Indian Perspective

In the current global scenario, it has become quite casual to witness women gearing up amidst all her responsibilities to equally participate with her counter parts. Despite the challenges open to them, they play an active role be it a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, a corporate head, or a business women. Wherever and whatever kind of work they do, they can't escape a phase called ‘child-bearing’. Though it is a biological blessing of women, it has become a forced phase by the society. As a Right, a person can choose when to marry and marriage should be with free consent of both individuals. But, the reality is different as it is the family of the girl, her relatives, neighborhood and close environment decides about her marriage or forces her to accord for marriage. This does not stop here, and it intervenes with her reproductive right too. If a girl after one year of marriage does not give birth, the so called ‘society’ around her creates a pressure and develops a taboo. Isn't it the right of women to decide on her child-bearing!?