Feminist Law

Digital safety needs to be rethought in terms of relationships through restructuring cyber-law legislation, broadening definitions of domestic violence to include digital coercive control and demanding context-sensitive platform design. Otherwise, digital safety cannot be transformed from a tool of domestic violence into an avenue for empowerment.

Overall, the MTP Act, Surrogacy and ART laws appear more inclined towards regulating reproduction rather than facilitating it. To impart real change, the existing law must be amended. Removal of the RMP’s opinion under Section 3 and decriminalizing the abortion entirely are the need of hour.