Draft Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment),Bill 2014 proposes to allow abortions until 24 weeks in exceptional cases.Abortion at any stage if substantial foetal abnormality is detected.

The Draft Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment),Bill 2014, which was put up on the website of Ministry of Health on 30.10.2014, proposes to allow abortions till 24 weeks in exceptional cases.The Draft Bill reads that abortion can be done on request of a woman if the pregnancy period has not gone beyond 12 weeks. However, where the length of pregnancy period exceeds 12 weeks but is below...