Ethical issues concerning legislation in late-term abortions in India

A Sasi - Asian bioethics review, 2019 - Springer
Late-term abortions (after 20 weeks of gestation) are an issue of immense debate in India,
where the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 permits abortions only up to 20 …

[PDF][PDF] Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act: A Boon or a Bane for a Woman in India-A Critical Analysis

P Chatterjee - IJSR, 2016 - academia.edu
In India, Pregnancy can be terminated till 20 weeks under Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Act, 1971. After that, either one has to go for illegal abortion or forcefully have to bear the …

[HTML][HTML] MTP Amendment Bill, 2014: towards re-imagining abortion care

S Krishnan - Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2015 - issuesinmedicalethics.org
Abstract In India, the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, while allowing abortions
under a broad range of circumstances, can be considered a conservative law from a feminist …

[HTML][HTML] Denial of safe abortion to survivors of rape in India

P Bhate-Deosthali, S Rege - Health and human rights, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Access to abortion is desperately needed when pregnancy is the result of rape, both within
and outside marriage, and especially when a girl has been raped. The availability of …

[引用][C] Abortion and Termination of Pregnancies in India: Along with Penal Provisions and Punishment, Practice, Procedure, and Protection Under Law with Rules

DD Seth, SK Maitra, BN Sinha - 1973 - Delhi Law House

[HTML][HTML] Medical termination of pregnancy (Amendment Bill, 2021): Is it enough for Indian women regarding comprehensive abortion care??

S Kumari, J Kishore - Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) has been legalized in India since 1971 considering
the huge burden of unsafe abortions. Even after about 50 years, Indian women continued to …

[PDF][PDF] Ethical and medico-legal aspects of the therapeutic abortion-our experience

OG Octavian, C Ionescu, A Lesnic, GA Filipescu… - Roman J Legal Med, 2018 - rjlm.ro
Objective. Our study aims to analyze the indications for therapeutic abortion and to discuss
the legal implications of this procedure in Romania. Methods. We performed a retrospective …

Termination of pregnancy for reason of foetal disability: are there grounds for a special exception in law

S Sheldon, S Wilkinson - Med. L. Rev., 2001 - HeinOnline
Current abortion law discriminates against the impaired foetus... The law should not
discriminate between impaired and nonimpaired foetuses: a common time limit should be …

Feticide and late termination of pregnancy: Five levels of ethical conflict: Review articles

K Moodley - Obstetrics and Gynaecology forum, 2008 - journals.co.za
Technological advances in medicine have changed the landscape of fetal medicine
considerably. Growing knowledge in fetal physiology, ultrasound, antenatal screening and …

Amendments to the abortion law in India: Is it progressive enough?

S Rani - Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Abortion was legally made available in India through the Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Act 1971, which permitted the pregnancy to be terminated under specific criteria, such as: to …