Originally posted by: Deltablues
I do not mean consent to be limited to sexual consent. Consent works in every aspect of life. Please do not condescend me.
A woman has reproductive and biological autonomy. She can decide and take independent actions regarding her pregnancies irrespective of her marital status. A pregnancy being a high-risk, invasive health condition is solely about the pregnant person. If any mishap happens to the said pregnancy, she is the victim, the patient, the one who has been harmed because it is her body and life on the line. Just because a husband's happiness, dreams, other intangible emotions might be tied to the potential pregnancy of his wife, it doesn't make him the victim in case of a miscarriage. His happiness or sadness doesn't take precedence over the actual person going through the physical and mental trauma of the miscarriage. Even a nornal pregnancy is not benign and is a high-risk medical condition; so sure as hell the pregnant person is the only one who is a victim/patient/person of interest.
And, it sure doesn't give him a right to kick her out of her marital home when she hadn't even been treated properly for the miscarriage.
In the case of Akshara, she was working under the premise — as informed by the hospital owned by Abhimanyu's family— that she had miscarried both her foetuses. So again, which imaginary child's visitation rights did she owe Abhimanyu after the divorce which should have impacted whether or not she moves to another city or marries another man?
Divorce doesn't grant veto rights to the obsessive ex in case you want to move to another city or start dating again.
When she got to know about Abhir, she should have filed for a medical negligence, domestic violence case against the Birlas and then married Abhinav with the sole custody of Abhir.
But what did she do? Call her ex numerous times to inform him about the surviving foetus. He forfeited his paternal responsibilities on the phone. Being a single mother, she didn't owe him even that.
After that, should she have stalked Dr. Birla like a creep to inform him of the surviving foetus while going through a complicated pregnancy because *checks notes* Dr. Birla was sad? Lol
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