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REQUEST FOR WITHDRAW <\/strong><\/p>\n of the Draft Law on Termination of Pregnancy from Civil Society<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Draft law infringes on fundamental rights and therefore is a complex and extensive law and may not be adopted in a short procedure.<\/p>\n 2. The draft law on termination of pregnancy terminates\/deleted previous provision of free choice of a woman to terminate a pregnancy up to 10 weeks by introducing restrictive mechanisms that are not based on scientific knowledge and medicine-based evidence nor are in accordance with current medical guidelines for termination of pregnancy defined by the World Health Organization. Specifically the following provisions are inconsistence with the international standards:<\/p>\n \u2022 Submission of a written request by the woman to terminate the pregnancy,<\/p>\n \u2022 Requesting written consent for the intervention by the woman,<\/p>\n \u2022 Mandatory pre-abortion counseling,<\/p>\n \u2022 Mandatory notification of a spouse,<\/p>\n \u2022 Providing a period of 3 days for counseling (waiting period), prior to the performing the intervention,<\/p>\n \u2022 Submission of a certificate from a specialist gynecologist, including ultrasonography to confirm the gestational age .<\/p>\n The provisions in Article 6 of the draft law on pregnancy termination request within 10 weeks of pregnancy are contrary to Article 2 of the draft law which stipulates that for the termination of pregnancy woman freely decides and is a violation of the Constitution and guaranteed freedoms and rights by the international treaties ratified by the Republic of Macedonia.<\/p>\n 3. The provisions of the draft law establish a new jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, and in particularly prescribe discretionary rights for the minister which will make decisions about:<\/p>\n \u2022 preparing the format for a written request for abortion<\/p>\n \u2022 establish regulations for counseling and clinical protocols<\/p>\n \u2022 Establishment of first-committees in health care institutions<\/p>\n This violates the autonomy and degrades the ability\/capacity of health facilities required to perform termination of pregnancy especially since the draft law is defined as a medical intervention and that expertise should lie in the professional staff and facilities, and the medical profession (MCM) .<\/p>\n The establishment of the Commission will further bureaucratic procedure for women who applied and indirectly minister will be in the role of decision-maker whether the request of the woman will be approved or not.<\/p>\n 4. High fines and introducing a measure for imprisonment doctors who do not comply with the provisions of the draft law even for procedures that are not life-threatening (recordkeeping, reporting partner) does not correspond to the performance penalties of other medical interventions, and further undermines the dignity of the profession and doctors.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" REQUEST FOR WITHDRAW of the Draft Law on Termination of Pregnancy from Civil Society 1. Draft law infringes on fundamental rights and therefore is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hera-aktuelno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hera.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}