• Dr. Bhavana A.K

Right to health and gender equality are considered as inviolable rights of women in domestic and international laws. Reproductive health is a component of right to health and gender equality. Right to dignity and autonomy requires that women shall be able to take independent decisions about her pregnancy, number of children, spacing of children, method of family planning and her reproductive health care. There shall be protection of confidentiality of data and informed consent in reproductive health-care .In reality, only an elite section of the society do enjoy the reproductive health care. Women from the low income group of society are denied of the maternal care and benefits. Unsafe abortion,maternal and infant mortality ,unscientific birth control methods etc. still prevails among rural population. The male domination in family and traditional cultural norms enhance the gender based crimes like female genital mutilation, sexual assault, child marriage, forced pregnancy involuntary sterilisation, and female foeticide which harms the reproductive health of women .The honourable Supreme court ruled that reproductive autonomy is a part of right to life . This paper analyses legal protection of the reproductive health of women in India .

Reproductive health,autonomy , dignity,gender equality

"LEGAL RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF WOMEN IN INDIA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no.q450-q459, May 2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405H54.pdf

"LEGAL RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF WOMEN IN INDIA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no. ppq450-q459, May 2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405H54.pdf