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Mother approaches Delhi HC, seeks permission to terminate pregnancy of her
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): A mother has knocked on the doors of the Delhi High Court seeking medical termination of pregnancy for her unmarried and minor daughter aged 16 years 4 months who is carrying a single ongoing live pregnancy of 17 weeks 5 days as per ultrasound scan. The
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SC favours to include unmarried women under abortion law
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): Insisting on a "forward-looking" approach, the Supreme Court has opined that any discrimination between married and unmarried women in respect of medical termination of pregnancy law in India that does not allow a single woman to go for abortion after 20 we
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Delhi HC refuses permission to abort 23 week-pregnancy of unmarried woman
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The Delhi High court on Friday refused to grant permission to an unmarried woman to abort the 23 weeks pregnancy out of a consensual sexual relationship.
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Delhi HC directs Police to help in terminating rape victim's pregnancy if
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to provide all assistance to the petitioner/mother and her minor daughter (victim) to get medical treatment for pregnancy, if the victim so desires and to ensure that the foetus sample is preserved
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Haryana Police arrests MTP kits supplier from Delhi, 102 kits recovered
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], November 27 (ANI): Haryana Police arrested a supplier of Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) kits from Delhi on Friday and recovered 102 kits from his possession.
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Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill ensures dignity, safety, and wellbei
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has termed as "historic" the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, recently passed by Rajya Sabha.
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Rajya Sabha passes bill to raise abortion upper limit to 24 weeks in speci
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the bill that provides for raising the upper limit for legal termination of pregnancy from 20 to 24 weeks and expands the access of women to safe and legal abortion services on "therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian and social gro
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Delhi HC directs AIIMS to examine medical condition of woman seeking abort
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to constitute a medical board and examine and determine the medical condition of a woman and her fetus, who is seeking termination of her pregnancy as there are c
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Lok Sabha passes Bill to raise abortion upper limit to 24 weeks for vulner
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): A Bill that provides for raising the upper limit for legal termination of pregnancy from 20 to 24 weeks and expands the access of women to safe and legal abortion services on "therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian and social grounds" was passed by Lok Sabha on
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Cabinet approves Bill to raise abortion upper limit to 24 weeks for vulner
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Bill that provides for raising the upper limit for legal termination of pregnancy from 20 to 24 weeks and expands the access of women to safe and legal abortion services on "therapeutic, eugenic, humanitarian and s
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Cabinet approves Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, raises legal abort
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 29 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to increase the upper limit for legal termination of pregnancy to 24 weeks from the earlier 20 weeks.
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Delhi: Surrogate mother with twins dies at AIIMS, doctors demand strict su
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 29 (ANI): Scores of medicos practising at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi are demanding stricter surrogacy laws after a 42-year-old surrogate mother, who was 17 weeks pregnant with twin babies, died recently.
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