{"id":47031,"date":"2022-08-03T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/03\/india-abortion-rights-dalit-women"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:15:18","slug":"feminists-in-india-applaud-their-abortion-rights-but-they-dont-extend-to-dalit-women-shreeja-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47031","title":{"rendered":"Feminists in India applaud their abortion rights \u2013 but they don\u2019t extend to Dalit women  | Shreeja Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any gains made<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in my second-year law class as Roe v Wade was overturned, I watched young women hail India\u2019s abortion legislation. My heart broke a little more each time my \u201cfeminist\u201d classmates flattered the law protecting their reproductive rights.<\/p>\n<p>For a movement claiming to represent all women, Indian feminism is a colossal failure. It persistently overlooks the women of my community. Can they afford safe abortion? Are they able to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.thewire.in\/health\/world-contraception-day-indias-family-planning-programme-needs-a-big-push\/\">choose birth control measures<\/a>? Do they have access to reproductive healthcare at all?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/03\/india-abortion-rights-dalit-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any gains madeSitting in my second-year law class as Roe v Wade was overturned, I watched young women hail India\u2019s abortion legislation. My heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,1128,237,59,346,62,1353,1539,61,281,1792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-dalits","category-feminism","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-inequality-and-development","category-reproductive-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-health"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47031\/revisions\/47032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}