The civic administration's efforts to provide safe abortion to women have shown results as the number of women opting for medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) in the city have doubled in the last two years.
Information dissemination, facilitation and use of safe and easy abortion technique, called Manual Vacuum Aspiration (see box), has not only helped reduce risks caused due to unsafe methods of abortions, but has also helped remove the stigma attached to abortion. Source: Times of India Read more
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Acknowledging that maternal mortality rate in the state is 8.9% due to unsafe abortions and around 15,000 women die annually across the nation due to it, the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) authorities have stressed the need of implementation of safe abortion services at health centres across all the districts of state as per Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act-1971.
Source: Times of India Read more Rehabilitation is the least that a rape victim can get from law and order agencies and hospitals. But in a case of apathy, a 13-year-old victim of gang rape and her parents, who are migrant labourers, were shown the door not just by police but also by a hospital in Gurgaon in defiance of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013. Now, the victim, who is four months pregnant, faces risk to her life even as Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital and Gurgaon's Civil Hospital are busy passing the buck.
Source: Times of India Read more Unsafe abortion is still a neglected health issue in India and other developing nations. IPAS study “Exploring the pathways of unsafe abortion” highlights that an unsafe abortion is killing a woman every two hours. The study was conducted among 380 women in five districts of Madhya Pradesh. From the study it has come out that, more than half of the women (53%) first attempted terminating pregnancy at home and over 90% sought care from a sub-optimal provider (either initially or after attempting abortion at home). This study also documents the first research initiative in India to interview 381 women with post abortion complications, providing interesting insights and information about the pathways of unsafe abortion.
Source: The Hindu Read more The abortion law guarantees absolute confidentiality to a woman irrespective of her age, while the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 — put in place after the horrific gang-rape of the 23-year-old girl in Delhi last year — make it mandatory for the hospitals, local bodies or individuals, to report any kind of offence or even a suspicion of offence in the case of a minor.
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