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Should Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act be amended to permit termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks?

Yes 51 %
No 49 %
Can't say 1 %
Total Votes Cast : 299
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Should Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act be amended to permit termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks?
Posted by A. A. JOSE

03/11/2008 12:29:59

NOT AT ALL ADVISABLE. EXISTING PROVISIONS ARE WELL THOUGHT OF AND TIME TESTED.
 
Posted by SURESH KUMAR GOEL

11/08/2008 22:04:33

India is a country of Rishies, Sadhus. Ultimate aim is to attain Mukti. and we have to remember that children are gift of Almighty, and we have no right to terminate him or her.
 
Posted by smith sharma

11/08/2008 16:40:49

it's harmful for unborned child.
 
Posted by Irshad Ahmad Khilji

11/08/2008 12:54:47

No comments
 
Posted by VISHNUAGARWAL

11/08/2008 12:27:50

yeah it sd be amended.
 
Posted by aruntrivedi

10/08/2008 19:30:16

yes,it should be sufficiently amended and if termination cannot be permitted in that the entire responsibility should be fixed by HC for nurturing the child in accordance with the status of person
 
Posted by nandanan varrier

10/08/2008 19:17:10

Freedom of this choice should be left to the parents, especially the expectant mother. Modern facilities help us to find the health condition of a child in the womb and it does'nt matter whether it is 20 weeks or more so long as the doctor and the expectant mother decide on the issue after due consideration. The State will not come for the help of the family after a baby is born with serious health problems.
 
Posted by j.balaji

10/08/2008 18:42:17

if the the child has any deformity or desease than the parents alone have to bear it,whether in terms of finance for treatment or otherwise.so, the parents should b given a chance to choose among the options.
 
Posted by rakesh kumar sharma

10/08/2008 17:32:06

If to permit termination of pregnency beyound 20 weeks the ratio of abortion goes high and it could effect the health of women.
 
Posted by mohd. muqim khan

10/08/2008 12:45:49

i object for such amendments amounting to mercy killing. i ask the people supporting such amendments in MTP Act that who will take responsibility that the Act will not be misused in future.
 
Posted by M.A.T.Ganesan

09/08/2008 23:14:32

if there is danger to her she will terminate
 
Posted by vishal

09/08/2008 17:29:30

yes is should more than 20weeks
 
Posted by Mr.kaushal shah

09/08/2008 16:17:31

such in human act should not be allowed. it amounts to mercy killing, which our laws or culture does not permit. by amending the Act 1971, the law will encourage the persons those does not want female in their womb. hence i strongly and flatly say "No" to any such amendment. even foetus
 
Posted by ashok

08/08/2008 19:34:19

firstly shuld be try to save mother and child both then after then if you have option to save any one, then shuld by try to save only mother.
 
Posted by adv fauzia azim

08/08/2008 18:12:52

if the child to be born cannnot live a normal life and cannot be supported by anyone(except by its parents).then MTP should be allowed.
 
Posted by Chayanika

08/08/2008 15:56:46

Medical termination of Pregnancy is ethical so long as it doesnt affect a fully developed child in the mother's womb and it is only the foetus which gets terminated.But after 20 weeks terminating pregnancy would be strictly unethical as it goes beyond the Right to Life!!!
 
Posted by mohd. muqim khan

08/08/2008 09:56:11

as per the news in papers, i m surprised as to how the people have become in human and coming forward in support of the parents in killing a life having a doubt of least abnormality. i strongly opposed to such move for seeking amendments in the MTP Act 1971 (Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act)
 
Posted by t.parthasarathy

07/08/2008 23:24:50

In India cases of forced termination of pregnancy are more that voluntary termination, when it comes to terminations after 20th week. This Las curbs such atrocities against women in general, no exception can be made, which may be taken as a loop hole for further misuse, which may make the law itself useless.
 
Posted by ESTHERPRIYA

07/08/2008 23:02:29

I vote in favour that it has to be amended to permit such termination beyond 20 weeks
 
Posted by praveen

07/08/2008 13:47:24

no its a unlawfuii amend...no more words to saw...this act may causes more affected to public
 
Posted by V.Raghavan

06/08/2008 19:15:19

Not necessary to amend the MTP Act. In the instant case we cannot predict that the child would be born with permanant heart problem. During the course of its growth it may be soldved by nature or with due medical attention and treatment can be cured. Just for a since case the act need not be amended
 
Posted by nitin

06/08/2008 18:04:15

if that amendment made then there occurs many termination of the child in mothers womb and increase curealty on womens as it will become the right of every person to make that pregnancy terminated
 
Posted by mohd. muqim khan

06/08/2008 12:03:10

not at all it amounts to mercy killing as the fetus has life and our laws as well culture do not allow being the act of killing is in-human.
 
Posted by mohd. muqim khan

06/08/2008 11:42:43

such in human act should not be allowed. it amounts to mercy killing, which our laws or culture does not permit. by amending the Act 1971, the law will encourage the persons those does not want female in their womb. hence i strongly and flatly say "No" to any such amendment. even foetus
 
Posted by Member (Account Deleted)

06/08/2008 11:34:20

In a country which is incapable providing basic neccessity to its citizen, and in rare circumstances like the one on TV, the person who is to bear the child should be given the power to decide.
 
Posted by Rohit Panchkaran

05/08/2008 20:53:37

yes. but strictly only in the cases where foetus suffers from a ailment which can not be cured.
 
Posted by Rohit Panchkaran

05/08/2008 20:53:35

yes. but strictly only in the cases where foetus suffers from a ailment which can not be cured.
 
Posted by Rama chary Rachakonda

05/08/2008 14:33:07

Inspite of technology and science so developed in this era, if any default pregnancy taking place, it can rectified with new developement of science. But not killing pregnant child.
 
Posted by RADHA PYARI SRIPADA

05/08/2008 13:51:16

i am afraid that there might be a possibility of misuse of the law if amended. however, discretion be granted to the parents 'in rare cases'.
 
Posted by G. ARAVINTHAN

05/08/2008 13:16:44

Not only the parents, who were the persons to be suffered in future, the child too. There must be an amendment, to establish an exception clause, that to terminate the pregnancy in genuine cases diagnosed by doctors, based on the opinion by leading gynecologists.
 
Posted by shekarsrikanteswaren

05/08/2008 12:38:10

Yes. The parents based on the medical advise should be given the option to terminate.
 
Posted by Adv.Chaitrali Deshmukh

05/08/2008 11:58:43

Termination of pregnancy beyond 20 weeks will give rise the ratio of termination of pregnancy secondly it is harmful for the health of the mother/leady to terminate the baby so late and thirdly it will give rise in the rate of termination of baby girl in India.
 
Posted by K.C.Suresh

05/08/2008 05:11:47

It must be amended to 3 months i.e., 60 days subject to medical advise in appropriate cases.
 
Posted by Srinivas.B.S.S.T

05/08/2008 01:02:56

If the foetus is diagonised as defective by some or other factors then the parents must be given a chance to consider whether to bring it into this world or not. After all it the parents who gonna suffer with the illfated child then the option should be left to them alone.
 
Posted by Prakash Yedhula

04/08/2008 23:41:07

I feel that section 3 of the MTP Act should be amended to permit termination of pregnancy in appropriate cases. There can be a panel of doctors appointed to examine the case and their opinion can be given importance to.
 

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