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Mr. Vijay Sharma and Mrs. Kirti Sharma Vs. Union of India (Uoi) Throug ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR2008Bom29; 2007(6)ALLMR336; 2007(5)BomCR710

..... couples who are already having child/children of one sex. (b) the objects and reasons of the medical termination of pregnancy act, 1997 (for short, 'mtp act') read with section 3(2)(i) thereof permit termination of pregnancy of a woman by a registered medical practitioner if the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman or grave injury to her physical or mental ..... prohibits any person to cause or allowed to be caused selection of sex before or after conception. 16. the mtp act is an act to provide for the termination of certain pregnancies by registered medical practitioners and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. statement of objects and reasons of the mtp act indicates that it concerns itself with the avoidable wastage of .....

Bharatbhai Dhanjibhai Modi Vs. Collector and ors.

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : AIR2008Guj106; 2008GLH(1)772; (2008)2GLR1128

..... .(emphasis supplied)10. we fail to see how the impugned provisions of the gujarat municipalities act can be said to be inconsistent with the provisions of the medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971. we, therefore, see no inconsistency whatsoever between the impugned provisions of the said act and the provisions of the hindu marriage act, 1955 ..... that the impugned provisions of the state act are therefore, inconsistent with the provisions of the hindu marriage act, 1955 as well as the provisions of the medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971, and therefore, by virtue of provisions of article 254 of the constitution, the provisions of the state act will have to yield to the ..... 21 of the constitution of india, and also on the ground that the said provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of section 3(2) of the medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971 which is a central act and that by virtue of the provisions of article 254 of the constitution, the provisions of section 11(1)(h .....

X Vs. The Principal Secretary Health And Family Welfare Department Gov ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... the term woman in this judgment as including persons other than cis-gender women who may require access to safe medical termination of their pregnancies.12. in india, termination of pregnancies is to be done strictly in terms of the mtp act. the preamble of the mtp act states that it ..... nct of delhi & anr. respondents 1 judgment dr dhananjaya y chandrachud, j table of contents a. background ................................................................................................... 4 b. submissions ................................................................................................. 7 c. the medical termination of pregnancy act 1971 and the rules framed thereunder ............................................................................................................ 9 d. barriers to accessing safe and legal abortions ....................................... 16 i. rmps fear of prosecution ...................................................................... 16 ii. .....

Dr.lata Krishnaraddi Mankali Vs. The State Of Karnataka

Court : Karnataka Dharwad

..... about the commission of offence of rape against the victim girl, but, without informing the said fact to the nearest police station, the accused no.2 conducted the medical termination of pregnancy on the person of victim girl. therefore, there is violation of the pocso act.10. it is evident from the record that, accused no.1 and complainant are ..... . the victim girl informed that she is not married. though she was not consented to abort the foetus but, by force there was a abortion against the provisions of medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971 (in short `the act') of this victim girl. thereafter, she lodged a complaint. based upon that, a crime was registered by ankola police station in ..... s/3(2)(v) of sc/st act.313 of ipc. sec. 3(1)(w) of the sc/st amendement bill2015 sec. 19 and21of the pocso act and section3of medical termination of pregnancy act, 1971.-. 2 - crl.rp no.100169 of 2020 this crl.rp coming on for hearing, after having heard the matter, reserved for judgment, this day the .....

Dr. Balram Singh Vs. Union Of India

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... the supreme court expanded the definition of industry and on x v. principal secretary, heath and family welfare, govt. of nct delhi12, wherein this court interpretated the provisions of medical termination of pregnancy amendment act 2021 to include single and unmarried women.25. learned counsel further emphasized on the need for mechanization and graded implementation of inclusive definition of manual scavenger. examples like .....

Delhi Medical Association and ors. Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : AIR2009Delhi163

..... 2003 and the mpd 2021. one other contention is that a nursing home undertaking medical termination of pregnancy (mtp) cannot be asked to comply with the requirements of the nursing homes act as they are governed by the medical termination of pregnancy act ('mtp act'). it is stated that the government departments were not intending to ..... prescribed proforma, 433 applications had been received from unregistered nursing homes. it was stated that 'majority of the nursing homes surveyed fulfil the requisite medical standards as prescribed under the delhi nursing homes registration act 1953 and rules framed thereunder except amended rule 3. exact number will be informed at ..... for committing a punishable offence under the dd act. it would also deprive nursing homes of the benefits consequential upon registration such as coverage by medical insurance since the insurance companies would cover only such hospitals and nursing homes as are registered with local authorities. it is pointed out that the .....

Rust Vs. Sullivan

Court : US Supreme Court

..... . s. 511 , and its decision to fund childbirth but not abortion "places no governmental obstacle in the path of a woman who chooses to terminate her pregnancy, but rather, by means of unequal subsidization of abortion and other medical services, encourages alternative activity deemed in the public interest." mcrae, 448 u.s. at 448 u. s. 315 . that the regulations do not impermissibly ..... -200. 3. the regulations do not violate a woman's fifth amendment right to choose whether to terminate her pregnancy. the government has no constitutional duty to subsidize an activity merely because it is constitutionally protected, and may validly choose to allocate public funds for medical services relating to childbirth but not to abortion. webster v. reproductive health services, 492 u. s. 490 .....

Diamond Vs. Charles

Court : US Supreme Court

..... exercise in order to preserve the life and health of any fetus intended to be born and not aborted when there exists, in the medical judgment of the physician performing the pregnancy termination based on the particular facts of the case before him, a possibility known to him of sustained survival of the fetus apart from ..... the body of the mother, with or without artificial support. any physician or person assisting in such pregnancy termination who shall intentionally fail to take such measures to encourage or sustain the life of such a fetus, before or after birth, is guilty of a class ..... as to the basis for a judgment concerning the existence of a medical emergency); and 12, in part (the third sentence, prohibiting experimentation with or exploitation of fetal tissue). [ footnote 8 ] section 6(1) then provided: "no person who intentionally terminates a pregnancy after the fetus is known to be viable shall intentionally fail to exercise .....

Ms. X Vs. Mr. Z and anr.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 96(2002)DLT354; I(2002)DMC448

..... the above discussion, i deem it fit to direct the chairman and superintendent, government kasturba gandhi hospital for women and children, madras-5, to conduct medical termination of pregnancy of the petitioner and preserve fetus to enable the investigating agency to ask for dna test, which would be helpful in order to prove the case of ..... in petitioner being on family way. it is now not much in issue between the parties whether the pregnancy of the petitioner, which was admitted a tubular pregnancy was terminated on 30.12.1994 at all india institute of medical sciences. respondent no. 1 asserts that he has come to know that records and slides of tubular ..... gestation of the petitioner have been reserved in all india institute of medical science. the slides are kept under hospital .....

Chandigarh Administration Vs. Nemo

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : (2009)156PLR489

..... the act of 2002 only and which prior to such amendment included mentally retarded pregnant woman also], any interpretation should lean towards liberalising medical termination of pregnancy.29. we are unhesitatingly of the view that such like cases can not be decided on the solitary strength of interpretation of legal provisions ..... un declaration on human rights. in no uncertain terms, argued shri cheema, the consent of the victim shall be a condition precedent before medical termination of her pregnancy. besides making a pointed reference to the declaration on the rights of mentally retarded persons proclaimed by the general assembly resolution dated 20th december ..... and who [the guardian so appointed], in turn, can act in the best interests of the disabled person, including giving consent for medical termination of the pregnancy in accordance with the provisions of the 1971 act. the chandigarh administration instead opted for approaching this court to issue appropriate directions as, .....