5.4 Family Planning Laws of Nepal

The "law" landscape (the honest craft): no single "Family Planning Act" — the family planning's law = the constitutional rights + the policy-and-programme machinery: (1) the constitutional faces (the 38(2) reproductive rights + the 35's health); (2) the National Population Policy 2071 (the voluntary-informed-choice principle (the targets' rejection)); (3) the services' programme (the government's family-planning services (the contraception's free provision (the pills, the condoms, the IUDs, the implants, the permanent methods (the voluntary-consent discipline (the informed-consent's-and-the no-incentive-coercion craft)))); (4) the safe-abortion framework (the 2058 Muluki Ain amendment's legalisation → the Criminal Code 2074's current craft (Unit 6.2's detail)); (5) the adolescents' faces (the youth-friendly services (the consent-age's- and-the access questions)); (6) the local era (the post-federalism Palika's health services (the Local Government Operation Act 2074's faces)); the international anchors (the ICPD + the CEDAW + the CRC (the treaty-consistent craft)). Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The rights-population correlation (the ICPD's people-centred revolution — the banker); (ii) The reproductive rights' constitutional architecture (the 38 + the 35 craft). Short questions: the coercion's cautionary craft; the Article 35's faces; the family planning's consent discipline. Trick areas: (i) The population's rights-based approach: the people are the ENDS not the means (the "control" vocabulary's constitutional problem); (ii) The reproductive right's anchor = Article 38(2) (the women's chapter) BESIDE the Article 35's general health rights…