Supreme Court’s abortion ruling brings focus back on proposed amendments to MTP Act

The Supreme Court’s verdict allowing a woman from Mumbai to abort her 24-week pregnancy for abnormality of the fetus that could endanger her life has brought focus back on the proposed amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971. “The proposed changes to the Act will save such women from going to court and hence, a delay in abortion, mental trauma as well as huge expenses,” says Vinoj Manning, Executive Director, Ipas Development Foundation (IDF), an NGO that works on increasing women’s access to comprehensive abortion care in India.