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Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, 2020
March 19 , 2021
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- The bill seeks to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.
- It provides for enhancing the upper gestation limit from 20 to 24 weeks for special categories of women.
- But this does not specify the category.
- Currently, abortion requires the opinion of one doctor if it is done within 12 weeks of conception and two doctors if it is done between 12 and 20 weeks.
- The bill allows abortion to be done on the advice of one doctor up to 20 weeks, and two doctors in the case of certain categories of women between 20 and 24 weeks.
- The bill also ensures that women get access to safe and legal abortion services on therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian grounds.
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