6.2 Law Relating to Contraception and Abortion in Nepal

The contraception's law: the fully-legal provision (the services' free-and-Universal access (Unit 5.4's craft)); the consent's sanctity (the voluntary informed choice (the coercion's bar)); the minors'-and-the spousal-consent questions (the rights-based answers). The abortion's law (the landmark arc): (1) the pre-2002 world (the complete ban (the maternal-death's-and-the illegal- abortion crisis (the prison statistics of women))); (2) the 2058 B.S. (2002) eleventh- amendment of the Muluki Ain (the legalisation (the conditions' craft)); (3) the Muluki Criminal Code 2074's current framework: the LEGAL abortion within conditions — the general 12-week window (the woman's consent); the extended faces (the rape-or-incest's pregnancy (the longer window); the fetal-impairment's-and-the mother's-health-risk grounds (the medical conditions' craft)); the woman's consent's primacy (the guardian's faces for the incapacity); the ILLEGAL abortion's crimes (the unqualified-provider's-and-the beyond-conditions faces (the punishment's craft)); (4) the services' machinery (the Safe Abortion Services' certification (the listed facilities' world)); the demographic impact (the maternal mortality's historic fall (the legalisation's public- health triumph — the evidence's craft)).