{"id":16597,"date":"2023-09-02T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=16597"},"modified":"2023-09-09T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T05:16:04","slug":"sociological-analysis-for-reproductive-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/sociological-analysis-for-reproductive-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological analysis of  reproductive rights of women and issues related  marital rape | Sociology Optional for UPSC Civil Services Examination | Triumph IAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle 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Family and Marriage in India<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16603\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-1-300x180.png\" alt=\"A Landmark for Reproductive Rights: Unpacking the Supreme Court\u2019s Stance on Abortion and Marital Rape in India, Best Sociology Optional Coaching, Sociology Optional Syllabus.\" width=\"938\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-1-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-1-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Capture-1.png 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CONTEXT\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\">CONTEXT:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court has extended the right to safe and legal abortion upto 24 weeks of pregnancy to all women in the country, regardless of marital status.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"638\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Sociological analysis of reproductive rights<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Functionalists like G. P. MURDOCK AND PARSONS<\/em><\/strong> argues that reproduction is an essential function of family and they emphasize on the expressive role of women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Similarly traditional role of family is legitimization of sexual relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Simone de Beauvoir<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 argued for<strong><em> women&#8217;s reproductive rights as an essential aspect of women&#8217;s liberation<\/em><\/strong>. She challenged traditional gender roles and emphasized the need for women to have control over their reproductive choices in order to achieve full autonomy and equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Audre Lorde<\/em><\/strong>: , highlighted the intersectionality<strong> of reproductive rights and social justice.<\/strong> She argued that reproductive justice goes beyond the right to abortion and encompasses the right to have children, access to reproductive healthcare, and freedom from reproductive coercion and injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Shulamith Firestone<\/strong>: emphasized the significance of reproductive rights in dismantling patriarchy. <strong><em>In her book &#8220;The Dialectic of Sex,&#8221; she argued for the development of reproductive technologies to liberate women from the burdens and constraints of biological reproduction.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>S.C. DUBE<\/em><\/strong>: in his village study he found that the traditional norms want that women should consider her husband as <em>master <\/em>and should serve him faithfully. Husband is an authoritative figure in the family and his will should be dominating in the domestic sphere<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"EXISTING_LAW_AND_SUPREME_COURT_JUDGEMENT\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>EXISTING LAW AND SUPREME COURT JUDGEMENT<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Unconditional abortion is not permitted in India. Abortion is illegal in India under SECTION 312 AND 313 of IPC; unless it is performed in a manner prescribed under <strong>Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.(M.T.P. ACT)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>MTP ACT, 1972 was amended in 2021 <\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Extended the MTP ACT services under failure of contraceptive clauses to any women for safe abortion based on women&#8217;s choice irrespective of marital status.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Increased gestational limit from 20 to 24 weeks for special categories of women.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Advice of one doctor is needed for terminating the pregnancy of gestation period up to 20 weeks, and two doctors upto 24 weeks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The particulars of a woman whose pregnancy has been terminated cannot be revealed except to a person authorized by law.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Supreme Court Judgment<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It held that Rule 3B should be interpreted as extending to any woman who has undergone a material change of circumstances<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Supreme Court ruled that unmarried women are also entitled to seek termination of 24 weeks of pregnancy arising out of a consensual relationship<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Significance of Supreme Court Judgment : <\/strong>This is a landmark decision for women as it places them at the very center of the abortion decision. Three distinct contributions are of note<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><em><strong>SUPREME COURT<\/strong> provided purposive interpretation and held <\/em>that the objective of act is to provide legal and safe medical abortion to women.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It observed that if <em>Rule 3B(c) was to be interpreted such that its benefits extended\u00a0 not only to married women, otherwise it would perpetuate the stereotype <\/em>that only married women indulge in sexual intercourse.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It centered abortion on a woman\u2019s own estimation of her circumstances and highlighted women\u2019s bodily autonomy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It\u00a0 held that marital rape would be rape for the purposes of the MTP Act. It further states that MTP rules create an \u2018artificial distinction between married and single women\u2019 and this is \u201cnot constitutionally sustainable\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It has also implications for the LGBTQ+ community, recognized that familial relationships go beyond the conventional notion of marriage, to include domestic, unmarried partnerships and queer relationships, which are \u201cas real as their traditional counterparts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"i\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16607\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-02-at-3.13.24-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"Sociological analysis of reproductive rights of women and issues related marital rape, Best Sociology Optional Coaching, Sociology Optional Syllabus.\" width=\"896\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-02-at-3.13.24-PM.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-02-at-3.13.24-PM-150x84.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Challenges_in_abortion_in_India\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>Challenges in abortion in India<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">As per National Health and Family Survey, 2015-16, only<strong><em> 53% of abortions are performed by registered medical doctors in India.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>Several inscriptions and religious texts<\/em><\/strong> oppose the idea of abortion which hinders development of social acceptance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><em>Social stigmas<\/em><\/strong> attached to unmarried women becoming pregnant, illegality of unmarried women seeking abortions, loss of privacy victims of rape etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The abortion debate asks whether it<strong><em> can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth.<\/em><\/strong> There is pro choice and pro life debate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-vhuhr-79elbk h-full dark:bg-gray-800\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-vhuhr-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col text-sm dark:bg-gray-800\">\n<div class=\"group w-full text-token-text-primary border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-15\">\n<div class=\"p-4 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 md:py-6 lg:px-0 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 gap-4 text-base mx-auto md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl }\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3 max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-3 overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sample_Question_for_UPSC_Sociology_Optional_Paper\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Sample Question for UPSC Sociology Optional Paper:<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-token-text-primary border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654]\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-5\">\n<div class=\"p-4 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 md:py-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 gap-4 text-base mx-auto md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl }\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3 max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-3 overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question 1: How do Functionalists like G.P. Murdock and Parsons view the issue of reproductive rights in the context of family?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Functionalists see reproduction as an essential function of the family and emphasize the expressive role of women, often sidelining women\u2019s agency in reproductive choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question 2<\/strong>: <strong>Discuss the impact of the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling on the exception of marital rape in Indian society.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling challenges the traditional patriarchal norms that legitimize marital rape, empowering women and upholding their right to bodily autonomy within the domestic sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question 3<\/strong>: <strong>What is the significance of the Supreme Court\u2019s judgment on extending abortion rights to unmarried women?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The judgment challenges societal stereotypes and stigmas, affirming women&#8217;s bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, irrespective of marital status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question 4<\/strong>: <strong>How do social stigmas affect the exercise of abortion rights in India?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Social stigmas, particularly those related to unmarried women and premarital sex, often deter women from seeking legal and safe abortions, pushing them towards unsafe methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Question 5<\/strong>: <strong>In what ways does the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling have implications for the LGBTQ+ community in India?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Answer<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The ruling recognizes non-traditional family structures, including queer relationships, thereby broadening the scope of reproductive and sexual rights to include the LGBTQ+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_Blogs\"><\/span><span 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