Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning

Sreenivas, Mytheli

doi:10.1080/00856401.2021.1886731

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“…In postcolonial India, scholars have attributed the origins of birth control as "part of an elitist agenda that actually restrained mainly poor and working-class women from exercising control over their own reproductive capacities" (Ahluwalia 2010). The state administered family planning policies that grew in intensity in the 1960s (Sreenivas 2021). At this time, the Shantilal Shah Committee was formed in 1964 to provide recommendations on the legal framework to regulate abortion, mostly to address the concerns around high maternal mortality deaths.…”

Section: Legal Framework On Abortion In Indiamentioning

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Jain

2024

Oñati Socio-Legal Series

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The legal framework governing abortion in India is, at its core, a cis-hetero-patriarchal framework that regulates pregnant persons' bodies using a punitive criminal justice system. The criminal framework encompasses Sections 312-318 IPC, provisions of the POCSO Act, and the PCPNDT Act, which prescribe significant state surveillance and allow for largely unchecked intimidation by law enforcement of both abortion providers and abortion seekers. Several case laws show the “chilling effect” of criminalization on healthcare providers, leading them to hesitate to provide safe abortion services. The stigma around abortions perpetuated by criminalization, leaves pregnant persons with limited reproductive choices – these include either availing of safe abortions and risking prosecution, availing of unsafe abortions and risking adverse health outcomes, or carrying unwanted pregnancies to term and avoiding prenatal and maternal healthcare. Criminalization disproportionately affects marginalized communities, with examples of legal reform showing carceral approaches' disregard for structural factors affecting certain groups' access to fundamental rights and healthcare services. It is, therefore, imperative to decriminalize abortion completely, framing avenues for redressal within a reproductive justice framework. The proposal to completely abolish penal provisions that govern forced abortions begets concerns about leaving marginalized pregnant persons who frequently experience forced abortions with no legal recourse. This feminist dilemma that ensues requires the adoption of decarceral, intersectional approaches that maintain structures of accountability for harm done, without posing any risk to the rights of marginalized pregnant persons. El marco jurídico que rige el aborto en India es fundamentalmente una estructura cis-heteropatriarcal, que utiliza un sistema de justicia penal punitivo para controlar los cuerpos de las personas embarazadas. Las secciones 312-318 del Código Penal indio, junto con la ley de Protección de los niños contra los delitos sexuales y la ley de Técnicas de diagnóstico prenatal y antes de la concepción, componen este marco penal, promoviendo una vigilancia estatal que intimida por igual a quienes practican el aborto y a quienes lo solicitan. Los casos judiciales ilustran vívidamente el perjudicial “efecto amedrentador” que tiene la penalización tanto sobre los proveedores de atención sanitaria como sobre quienes buscan abortar. El estigma vinculado a los abortos penalizados limita la autonomía de decisión reproductiva, obligando a las personas a elegir entre procedimientos seguros pero perseguibles, abortos inseguros con riesgos para la salud, o llevar a término embarazos no deseados. Esto afecta de manera desproporcionada a las comunidades marginadas, lo que pone de relieve la inadecuación de los enfoques carcelarios para abordar las barreras estructurales a la realización de los derechos reproductivos. Los activistas piden la despenalización completa, impulsando una transición hacia un marco de justicia reproductiva. La propuesta de abolir por completo las disposiciones penales que regulan los abortos forzados suscita la preocupación de dejar sin recursos legales a las personas embarazadas marginadas que suelen sufrir abortos forzados. El dilema feminista que se plantea exige la adopción de enfoques descarceladores e interseccionales que mantengan las estructuras de rendición de cuentas sin poner en peligro los derechos de las mujeres embarazadas marginadas.

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Section: Legal Framework On Abortion In Indiamentioning

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Jain

2024

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“…Mytheli Sreenivas uncovers a similar dynamic between middle-class women volunteers and the targets of their service in the field of family planning. 16 Her essay documents the efforts of the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and the Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) to make family planning a component of national development. While they claimed to meet poor women's needs, family planners' own records suggest that women were often sceptical of their claims.…”

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Introduction: A Country of Her Making

Datta

Sen

Sreenivas

2021

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

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This Introduction frames a collection of papers that explore the roles played by women-as volunteers, organisers, bureaucrats, politicians and citizens-in shaping the emerging ideologies and structures of independent India. Although women's participation is both understudied and inadequately theorised in existing scholarship, the papers in this collection demonstrate that the decades following India's Independence witnessed the participation of women in every sphere of politics and nation-building. The introductory essay tracks the limits and possibilities of women's agency and gendered citizenship in these spheres to historicise the women's movement during the post-Independence decades, and to examine its fraught relationship with feminism, patriarchal society and state politics.

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“…Family planning operates via lowering fertility by avoiding unwanted pregnancies and managing birth intervals [14]. Family planning refers to a population control strategy that allows for a balanced population [15].…”

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Identification of Communication Strategies for Population Control in Indonesia: A Systematic Review

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Utari

Satyawan

2022

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This article aimed to identify the most effective communication strategy to be implemented by the Indonesian Government to restrict population growth. Through the BKKBN, the Indonesian Government aims to improve information access and promote the National Family Planning Program to all segments of society. This effort has resulted in several studies assessing the communication strategy of BKKBN representatives in disseminating the Family Planning Program in several regions. To determine the most effective communication strategy, researchers must study various scientific journals and then synthesize the findings. This paper employed the systematic literature review method to examine five pieces of literature related to the BKKBN representatives’ communication strategies for disseminating the Family Planning Program. The findings revealed that those targeted were generally teenagers; the most commonly used communication strategies were direct counseling and the use of media through well-planned processes; the communication objectives were understanding and changing people’s behavior to create a prosperous family; and the most frequently used media were direct media (face-to-face counseling), indirect media (television, radio, newspapers), and new media (Facebook). Keywords: family planning, population growth, socialization

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Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning

Cited by 6 publications

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Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India

Introduction: A Country of Her Making

Identification of Communication Strategies for Population Control in Indonesia: A Systematic Review

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