{"id":84795,"date":"2019-08-07T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2019-08-07T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:46:43","slug":"raising-time-limit-for-abortion-under-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/raising-time-limit-for-abortion-under-study\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Raising time limit for abortion under study\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court\nthat it has initiated the process for an inter-ministerial consultation on\nraising the time period to terminate pregnancy <\/li><li>The response has come on backdrop of a PIL filed\nin the Delhi High Court for extending the time period to terminate pregnancy to\n24 to 26 weeks in case of health risks to the mother or foetus.<\/li><li>The petitioner had sought amendment to the\nMedical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. The Act currently prohibits abortion\npost 20 weeks. <\/li><li>Permission of a High Court is required beyond 20\nweeks and courts can make exceptions if abnormalities are detected and if there\nis substantial risk to the mother\u2019s life and health.<\/li><li>A pending bill in Parliament proposes to amend\nthe Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act to extend the legally permissible\nperiod to end a pregnancy to 24 weeks.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court that it has initiated the process for an inter-ministerial consultation on raising the time period to terminate pregnancy The response has come on backdrop of a PIL filed in the Delhi High Court for extending the time period to terminate pregnancy to 24 to 26 weeks in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/raising-time-limit-for-abortion-under-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Raising time limit for abortion under study\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1796],"class_list":["post-84795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-abortion","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704783525},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}