Legislations

The Rajya Sabha passed the Medical Termination of maternity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 that will increase the period of time at intervals that Associate in Nursing abortion could also be dole out. The Bill was passed in March last year within the Lok Sabha. 

·       Currently, abortion needs the opinion of 1 doctor if its done at intervals twelve weeks of conception, and 2 doctors if its done between twelve and twenty weeks.

·       The Bill permits abortion to be done on the recommendation of 1 stretch to twenty weeks, and 2 doctors within the case of sure classes of ladies, between twenty and twenty four weeks.

·       For a maternity to be terminated once twenty four weeks just in case of considerable fetal abnormalities, the opinion of the State-level medical board is crucial.

·       The Bill proposes a Medical Board in each State and UT. The board can want pregnancies on the far side twenty four weeks in cases of fetal abnormalities.

·       Each board can have one medical specialist, one specialist or sonologist, one baby doctor, and different members prescribed by the State/UT government.

·       Opposition MPs aforementioned the Bill still failed to offer ladies the liberty to determine, since they might would like a nod from a medical board within the case of pregnancies on the far side 24weeks.

The original Bill was framed in 1971.