PMO DELAY BRINGING "AMENDED MEDICAL TERMINATION BILL" IN PARLIAMENT

PMO DELAY BRINGING "AMENDED  MEDICAL TERMINATION BILL" IN PARLIAMENT 

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PMO raised concern over allowing the Health workers,Ayush Doctors to conduct The Medical Termination of Pregnancy in  proposed Drafted Amendement in year 2014 in public domain of Original Medical termination of pregnancy Bill of year 1971 as after the multiple Media reports of Ayush Doctors and health workers were found to conduct Medical terminations enadangering life of pregnant mother due to their unskilled and unexperienced exposure and proper Health establishment to deal with the complications associated with it.So now Government is seriously thinking to amend the bill where only qualified trained registered Modern medicine doctors are only allowed to conduct MTP in a good set up full filling either of  04 considered caluse allowing it to perform it after consent.

                          Citing its concerns PMO has returned the file to the health ministry asking it to ensure better implementation of the MTP Act 1971 and the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994 — meant to crack down on sex-selective abortions — before attempting to amend either.With this move, also on hold the long standing demand of the medical fraternity of increasing the abortion time limit from 20 weeks to 24 weeks as proposed in this Amendment too. Another important point which is on hold with the amendment bill, is the equal right to safe abortions for both married and single women. The health ministry had asked for the word “married” to be dropped from the law where it talks of contraceptive failure as a reason for abortion.

                      Therefore,Those who were waiting for the amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 would have to now wait longer, as hurdles have resulted in a hold on the Draft Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment), Bill 2014, with the said bill not taken up by the parliament recently for consideration.