Supreme court - Choices

 Voluntary Health Association of Punjab   Vs  Union of India and Others -  
3, 5 and 7 paras
The perception of any individual or group or organization or system treating a woman with inequity, indignity or any kind of discrimination is constitutionally impermissible - The historical perception has to be buried

 To think that a woman should think about what a man or a society wants her to think is tantamounts to slaughtering her choice, and definitely a humiliating Act.

 from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville:

" If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that person [Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women."