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The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last week has highlighted the importance of access to birth control, which already proves difficult for many women of color due to discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system. While the decision does not directly impact access to contraception, legal experts say that states and municipalities that are aiming to ban abortion at the point of conception may also challenge contraceptives like Plan B and intrauterine devices. Some state legislators have already taken steps to try to restrict birth control. In Tennessee, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, earlier this year called Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that ensured birth control access to individuals who were married, “constitutionally unsound.” (A spokesperson for Blackburn told The Washington Post in June that she “does not support banning birth control, nor did she call for a ban.”) “The hardest burden is going to largely f...

A woman from Patna, Bihar fell in love with a young man on Instagram. The woman was already married. Here, the woman also fell madly in love with the young man, leaving her husband and living with the young man on rent. One day the young man took the woman to the Karota temple, then both of them got married there. After this, both of them started living as husband and wife in a rented room. During this, the woman became pregnant twice. Both the times the lover got the woman aborted and now the young man has left the woman and gone to Siliguri. He is now trying to get rid of the woman. When the woman asks to live with him, he is threatening to rape her. After this the love on Instagram has now reached the police station. The woman is now seeking justice in the police station. Actually, a woman and a young man living in Sandalpur, Patna met on the Instagram platform. Then the two started chatting which gradually grew into friendship and then love. When their love blossomed, they sta...

The live-in partner is accused of forcibly aborting the woman 14 times. This case of suicide is from Jaitpur area of South East Delhi. This 33-year-old woman was living in live-in for the last 8 years. In 8 years, the woman was forced to have an abortion 14 times. Disturbed by this, the woman committed suicide on 5 July. Initially, the police was treating it as a suicide. But then a suicide note was found from the woman's clothes. After this, a case was registered under the sections of abetment to suicide and rape. The victim woman lived in Jaitpur area of Delhi. The woman was married and also has two daughters, but for 9 years the woman was living separately from her husband. The woman had sent her two daughters to the hostel to study and was currently living in a live-in herself. The police came to know about the suicide of this woman on July 5. The woman had committed suicide by hanging herself from the fan. Then during the investigation, the police got a suicide note from...

Gonda. A week after the complaint in the case of raping the girl on the pretext of marriage for several years and forcibly aborted four times, the Nawabganj police has registered a report against the accused youth. A girl resident of Nawabganj area said in the complaint given in the police station that Ashok Kumar Nishad raped her for many years on the pretext of marriage. On pressurizing the marriage, he kept evasive. When the family came to know about this, the girl was married in Rajasthan in 2011 due to fear of localization. But Ashok started going there too. He also used to talk on the phone. A fight broke out in the girl's in-laws' house regarding this. In the year 2017, her in-laws threw her out of the house. Then she started living in the maternal house, then the young man again started taking advantage of the compulsion by pretending to marry. When the girl put pressure on marriage, she took her to the temple and filled vermilion in the demand and continued to phy...