The importance of considering the evidence in the MTP 2014 Amendment debate in India – unsubstantiated arguments should not impede improved access to safe abortion

With the objective to improve access to safe abortion services in India, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, with approval of the Law Ministry, published draft amendments of the MTP Act on October 29, 2014. Instead of the expected support, the amendments created a heated debate within professional m...

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Autores principales: Paul, Mandira, Danielsson, Kristina Gemzell, Essén, Birgitta, Allvin, Marie Klingberg
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Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25828071
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27512
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description With the objective to improve access to safe abortion services in India, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, with approval of the Law Ministry, published draft amendments of the MTP Act on October 29, 2014. Instead of the expected support, the amendments created a heated debate within professional medical associations of India. In this commentary, we review the evidence in response to the current discourse with regard to the amendments. It would be unfortunate if unsubstantiated one-sided arguments would impede the intention of improving access to safe abortion care in India.
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spelling pubmed-43808572015-04-08 The importance of considering the evidence in the MTP 2014 Amendment debate in India – unsubstantiated arguments should not impede improved access to safe abortion Paul, Mandira Danielsson, Kristina Gemzell Essén, Birgitta Allvin, Marie Klingberg Glob Health Action Short Communication With the objective to improve access to safe abortion services in India, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, with approval of the Law Ministry, published draft amendments of the MTP Act on October 29, 2014. Instead of the expected support, the amendments created a heated debate within professional medical associations of India. In this commentary, we review the evidence in response to the current discourse with regard to the amendments. It would be unfortunate if unsubstantiated one-sided arguments would impede the intention of improving access to safe abortion care in India. Co-Action Publishing 2015-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4380857/ /pubmed/25828071 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27512 Text en © 2015 Mandira Paul et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.27512
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