{"id":84915,"date":"2020-01-29T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:18:15","slug":"law-tweak-may-make-it-easier-for-single-women-to-abort-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/law-tweak-may-make-it-easier-for-single-women-to-abort-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Law tweak may make it easier for single women to abort too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Union Cabinet is likely to approve changes in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/strong><strong>\t<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It provides the legal framework for making Comprehensive Abortion care (CAC) services available in India.<\/li><li>The Act allows women to abort foetuses up to 20-weeks-old.<\/li><li>The law recognises \u201cfailure of contraceptive\u201d and \u201cunplanned pregnancy\u201d as legal reasons for abortion only in the case of \u201cmarried\u201d women.<\/li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;Between 12 and 20 weeks the grounds for abortion are limited to:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; Where continuance of a pregnancy would cause risk to the life\/physical or mental health of the pregnant woman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>o &nbsp; Where there exists a substantial risk that if the child is born it would suffer from physical or mental abnormalities<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Union Cabinet is likely to approve changes in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act Facts: &nbsp;Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It provides the legal framework for making Comprehensive Abortion care (CAC) services available in India. The Act allows women to abort foetuses up to 20-weeks-old.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/law-tweak-may-make-it-easier-for-single-women-to-abort-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Law tweak may make it easier for single women to abort too<\/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":[1798],"class_list":["post-84915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-medical-termination-of-pregnancy-act","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700230830},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84915","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=84915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}