Women Terminating Pregnancy in Singapore

Debated in Parliament on 17 Feb 2014.

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Gerald Giam asked for data on termination requests, counselling referrals, and decisions to keep pregnancies over the past decade, as well as the names of organisations providing mandatory pre-abortion counselling.
Gan Kim Yong provided tables with statistics on termination requests, counselling, and kept pregnancies, and stated that counselling is done by trained doctors or nurses at approved public or private institutions, with the Health Promotion Board Student Centre handling cases of unmarried women under 16.
The response clarified that mandatory pre-abortion counselling is conducted by approved institutions under the TOP Act and Regulations, without naming specific external organisations.

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Gerald Giam Yean Song

Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song asked the Minister for Health (a) in each of the last 10 years (i) how many women have sought to terminate their pregnancy in Singapore; (ii) how many women are referred to a trained counsellor for pre-abortion counselling; (iii) how many women decided not to terminate their pregnancy after undergoing counselling; and (b) what are the names of the organisations that patients are currently referred to for mandatory pre-abortion counselling.

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Gerald Giam asked for data on termination requests, counselling referrals, and decisions to keep pregnancies over the past decade, as well as the names of organisations providing mandatory pre-abortion counselling.
Gan Kim Yong provided tables with statistics on termination requests, counselling, and kept pregnancies, and stated that counselling is done by trained doctors or nurses at approved public or private institutions, with the Health Promotion Board Student Centre handling cases of unmarried women under 16.
The response clarified that mandatory pre-abortion counselling is conducted by approved institutions under the TOP Act and Regulations, without naming specific external organisations.

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Women Terminating Pregnancy in Singapore

Debated in Parliament on 17 Feb 2014.

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Gerald Giam asked for data on termination requests, counselling referrals, and decisions to keep pregnancies over the past decade, as well as the names of organisations providing mandatory pre-abortion counselling.
Gan Kim Yong provided tables with statistics on termination requests, counselling, and kept pregnancies, and stated that counselling is done by trained doctors or nurses at approved public or private institutions, with the Health Promotion Board Student Centre handling cases of unmarried women under 16.
The response clarified that mandatory pre-abortion counselling is conducted by approved institutions under the TOP Act and Regulations, without naming specific external organisations.

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Gerald Giam Yean Song

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Gerald Giam asked for data on termination requests, counselling referrals, and decisions to keep pregnancies over the past decade, as well as the names of organisations providing mandatory pre-abortion counselling.
Gan Kim Yong provided tables with statistics on termination requests, counselling, and kept pregnancies, and stated that counselling is done by trained doctors or nurses at approved public or private institutions, with the Health Promotion Board Student Centre handling cases of unmarried women under 16.
The response clarified that mandatory pre-abortion counselling is conducted by approved institutions under the TOP Act and Regulations, without naming specific external organisations.

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Women Terminating Pregnancy in Singapore

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Gerald Giam Yean Song

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Women Terminating Pregnancy in Singapore

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Gerald Giam Yean Song

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