SC Judgements are available online here. I spent more than an hour searching for this one, but couldn’t find it as I think it is not online yet.

I too am happy wherever I could find society engaged in meaningful discussion, but I must confess it was a bit rare. As I mentioned in my post, most general public opinion I’ve seen is simply dismissive of the SC judgment. What is heartening is that they are voicing their opinions on this tragedy, meaning they are concerned about this unfortunate girl and her to-be-child, which is a welcome break in the Bollywood-caste-politics-cricket-religion-obsessed nation of ours.

The comment policy is not an issue of cumbersomeness but of principle and willingness. The web has moved to open standards, and most websites allow visitors to choose different authentication mechanisms to avoid spammers. In the blog world, Blogger IDs, Email, and Open ID are usually sufficient for sites to filter out bots and spammers. If each self-hosted blog site started requiring registrations, it would become unwieldy and hence is considered a bad practice. However, I will still relook at BlogHer since I think there are many wonderful women bloggers there like you.

Thank you for stopping by at BlogHer and reading my post. Appreciate the comment.
[About the comment policy on BlogHer, I did not realize it was that problematic. I know they have a registration policy to track traffic/readers, but I thought it was fairly simple. Nita signed on to it too.
Anyhow, if it’s too cumbersome, let me know.]

Keep writing.

First, thank you. This subject invokes such strong passions and opinions, that you were actually the first to comment on how I’ve structured my post. It was a difficult one to write, given the complexity and profoundly grave topic, to be balanced as much as possible.

I think you have done a very good post as well. I can see the effort to be as comprehensive as possible. I am not commenting directly on your post because the site requires a separate registration for commenting. I don’t think you have missed anything.

The Supreme Court of India is one of the institutions which has retained my highest respect. And when it overturns a HC order, it is certainly worth deep thought. As you can see from the comment thread above, I have also gravitated towards supporting the SC’s decision, while understanding the rationale behind the HCs order at the same time.

Phew! What can I say. If I start here, I’ll land up saying more than the original post

I’ll keep it short. After reading the case in as much detail as possible, I feel both the courts did a fair job of handling the case and both had the best interests of the girl in mind. Some people have tried to make this into the American argument of pro-life vs pro-choice. I don’t agree. Both the courts focused on the girl and not the child. It’s clearly pro-choice.

Given how complicated the facts are, they made a sincere attempt to deal with it.

In my readings of other blog posts, I find that a lot of rage is misdirected because many didn’t have all the facts of the case. The more I read it, the less anger I have towards the courts.

Anyhow…if u get a chance and time, do read my post and let me know if I missed anything.