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    An Insight of MTP Act 1971 and it's amendments by our faculty at AIILSG, Ahmedabad; respected DR K N PATEL, Additional Director Dept of Helath and Family Welfare, Govt. of Gujarat. Just to share his excellence and knowledge for maximum help to health science and medical students through the medium of internet.

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    The MTP Act 1971

    Dr. K. N. Patel

    The Medical termination of Pregnancy Act

    THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT, 1971 (Act No. 34 of 1971) (10th August 1971) the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2002 MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY REGULATIONS, 2003 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE( Department of Family Planning)New Delhi, the 13th June April, 2003 They extend to all the Union territories

    Aim

    Health care measure which helps to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality resulting from illegal abortions It provides an opportunity to motivate women for adopting some form of contraception to regulate and ensure access to safe abortion care and defines when where and under what conditions abortion is permissible

    Main components

    Conditions under which the pregnancy can be terminated Person/s who can perform such termination Place where such termination can be performed

    Conditions under which pregnancy can be terminated

    Medical: Grave injury to physical, mental health of mother if pregnancy is continued Eugenic: Substantial risk to child, serious handicap due to physical-mental abnormality Humanitarian: Pregancy as a result of rape Socioeconomic: risk of health of mother Failure of contraceptive device

    Person/s who can perform such termination

    Up to 12 wks: A Registered Medical Practitioner having experience in obstetric and gynecology

    PG in O&G MBBS trained for MTP

    12 20 wks: Two Registered Medical Practitioners having experience in obstetric and gynecology

    Consent
    (a) No pregnancy of a woman, who has not attained the age of eighteen years, or, who, having attained the age of eighteen years, is a lunatic, shall be terminated except with the consent in writing of her guardian. (b) Save as otherwise provided in clause (a), no pregnancy shall be terminated except with the consent of the pregnant woman.

    Amendment
    A place for the time being approved for the purpose of this Act by Government or a District Level Committee constituted by that Government with the Chief Medical Officer or District Health Officer as the Chairperson of the said Committee

    Offence and penalty

    the termination of pregnancy by a person who is not a registered medical practitioner shall be an offence punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but which may extend to seven years
    Whoever terminates any pregnancy in a place other than that mentioned in section 4, shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but which may extend to seven years Any person being owner of a place which is not approved under clause (b) of section 4 shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but which may extend to seven years

    MTP Act: Concerns

    The default recognition of all public health institutions as abortion facilities also implies the responsibility of the government to make each public health institution capable of providing abortion care and hence makes the state accountable for it Covert and overt coercion for post-abortion contraceptive use in public institutions often compels women to seek unsafe abortion elsewhere

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