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Priyanka Chaturvedi Objects To Amendments In Abortion Bill
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4/18/2025
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi pointed out some loopholes in the bill passed by Parliament that now allows abortion up to 24 weeks in some cases.
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Sir, terminating a pregnancy for a woman to make that decision is mentally, emotionally
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and a very physically impacting decision that she takes in her life.
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Everybody is going on talking about it being a rights-based approach.
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I'm sorry, this bill is not a rights-based approach, it's a needs-based approach and
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that is where we are faltering, where we are not allowing a woman to make that choice.
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It hasn't been minutely thought through and it becomes our bounden duty to express
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the loopholes that exist and I'm hoping the Health Minister would consider them.
00:51
Sir, terminating a pregnancy for a woman to make that decision is mentally, emotionally
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and a very physically impacting decision that she takes in her life.
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And for her who is in advanced stage of pregnancy and a stage where she knows there is life
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inside her womb, for her to take that decision is a difficult one indeed.
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For her to run across to various medical boards that we are talking about constituting which
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has three doctors and some state representatives, I think is extremely demeaning to her, is
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an invasion of her privacy, invasion of her choice and also creating more bureaucratic
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hurdles than needed at a time when she needs to take that decision.
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I would have appreciated it, everybody is going on talking about it being a rights-based
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approach.
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I'm sorry, this bill is not a rights-based approach, it's a needs-based approach and
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that is where we are faltering, where we are not allowing a woman to make that choice.
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My colleague in the Parliament, she said something like,
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that women should think that those women who have misdeeds, they keep those children in their wombs.
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That is where I want to tell them, that why can't that woman take that decision and why
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does she have to go to the medical board and first take permission, that yes, first give
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me permission and then I will finish the child that is growing in my womb.
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It is a very unfortunate decision, it is a painful decision.
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I would also like to say, sir, that constituting a medical board, the facility of specialist
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doctors, you have mentioned three specialists in these three, are not found in every state,
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in every rural area.
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Those problems are also going to come up.
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78% of abortions in our country are outside of hospital facilities, health facilities,
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which are sometimes illegal but are also unsafe and that shows the maternal mortality rate.
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Under the COVID lockdown, there must have been many cases in which there was no facility
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to go to hospitals.
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Sir, poor public health infrastructure and absence of specialists across the country
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have also meant that most of these abortions do not happen in public hospitals but in private
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hospitals, which adds to the expense burden of the women.
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So, my only request through your chair, sir, would be to either amend this bill and make
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it like we have created some progressive laws.
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When we created this law in 1971 and we seek an amendment now, it should become a model
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for the world to follow rather than pushing a bill through in a hurry and regretting at leisure.
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