Decision of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress on Prohibiting Fetal Sex Determination for Non-Medical Needs and Artificial Termination of Pregnancy by Selection of Gend

Decision of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress on Prohibiting Fetal Sex Determination for Non-Medical Needs and Artificial Termination of Pregnancy by Selection of Gender I. Maintaining the basic balance of the sex ratio at birth is an important responsibility of local people's governments at all levels. Local people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the management and prevention of the imbalance in the sex ratio at birth into population development planning and implement a target management responsibility system.

Local people's governments at all levels should take measures to reward families for practicing family planning, carry out activities such as caring for girls, support rural households with only girls, and establish and improve the social security system in urban and rural areas, so as to promote a balanced sex ratio at birth. Second, the population and family planning administrative departments at the county level and above are responsible for the organization and implementation of the management of the imbalance in the sex ratio at birth under the leadership of the people's governments at the same level.

The administrative departments of population and family planning, health, and food and drug supervision and management at or above the county level shall formulate a management system for ultrasound technology and chromosome detection equipment and technology related to fetal sex identification, artificial pregnancy termination surgery, pregnancy check, and the sale and use of drugs for artificial termination of pregnancy, and notify the relevant information in a timely manner, so as to strengthen the supervision and management of the behavior of fetal sex identification and artificial termination of pregnancy.

The county level is the most important and the most important part of the country.

The administrative departments of education, public security, civil affairs, labor and social security, agriculture and other departments above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, collaborate to do a good job in the comprehensive management of the problem of imbalance in the sex ratio of the birth of the population and preventive work. Third, it is prohibited for any institution or individual to use ultrasound diagnosis or chromosome testing and other technologies for non-medical needs of fetal sex identification.

No institutions and individuals shall not carry out unauthorized medically necessary fetal sex identification. Medical and health care institutions that carry out medically necessary fetal sex identification shall be designated by the provincial health administrative department, announced to the public, and notified to the population and family planning administrative department at the same level.

One or both of the husband and wife diagnosed by a medical or health care institution at or above the county level with a hereditary disease, suspecting that the fetus may be suffering from a companion hereditary disease that requires fetal sex determination, shall be carried out in the medical or health care institutions designated by the provincial health administrative department.

The implementation of medical needs of fetal sex identification should be identified by the implementation of the agency more than three experts collectively reviewed and agreed to by qualified personnel in accordance with the technical specifications of the state. After diagnosis, it is necessary to terminate the pregnancy, the identification of the implementation of the agency to issue a medical diagnosis, and inform the party's domicile or residence county population and family planning administrative departments. Fourth, it is prohibited for any organization or individual to carry out non-medically necessary sex-selective artificial termination of pregnancy.

It is prohibited to organize or introduce pregnant women to undergo non-medical sex identification of the fetus or non-medical sex-selective artificial termination of pregnancy. V. If a prenatal diagnosis is made by a medical or health care institution at or above the county level and one of the following circumstances exists, the pregnancy can be artificially terminated with the medical diagnosis opinion issued by the medical or health care institution with corresponding qualifications:

(1) the fetus suffers from a serious hereditary disease;

(2) the fetus suffers from serious defects;

(3) the continuation of the pregnancy for a serious disease may jeopardize the life and safety of the pregnant woman or seriously endanger the health of the pregnant woman. (c) The continuation of pregnancy with a serious disease may endanger the life of the pregnant woman or seriously jeopardize her health.

In the case of emergency artificial termination of pregnancy under the circumstances of the preceding paragraph (3), the institution that performs the artificial termination of pregnancy surgery can perform the surgery in a timely manner according to the diagnosis and report to the population and family planning administrative department at the county level where it is located within ten days after the surgery. Sixth, in accordance with the legal birth conditions of more than fourteen weeks of pregnancy, non-medical needs, shall not choose the gender of artificial termination of pregnancy; non-selective gender needs to be artificially terminated pregnancy, to take the certificate of the management measures, the specific measures by the provincial people's government in accordance with the provisions of the law.

The administrative departments of population and family planning and the administering organizations shall protect the privacy of the parties concerned in accordance with the law. VII, without the approval of the health or population and family planning administrative departments, any institution or individual shall not carry out artificial termination of pregnancy surgery.

The artificial termination of pregnancy for women who are more than fourteen weeks pregnant shall be performed by the medical, health care or family planning service institutions that have obtained the License to Practice in Medical Institutions or the License to Practice in Family Planning Service Institutions, within the scope of the business projects they are authorized to carry out. The institution shall check the medical diagnosis or relevant certificates, register the operation item by item, and file a copy of the medical diagnosis or certificate together with the operation medical records, and report the statistics of artificial termination of pregnancy to the local county-level health administrative department every six months, and copy to the population and family planning administrative department of the same level at the same time. Eight, to carry out delivery of medical, health care institutions shall establish a registration system for delivery. Health administrative departments at or above the county level shall inform the population and family planning administrative departments at the same level every six months of the total number of newborns and the sex ratio.

It is prohibited to falsely report or conceal the death of a newborn. Newborns die in medical and health care institutions, medical and health care institutions shall promptly issue a death certificate, and within thirty days after the issuance of the certificate to inform the county-level population and family planning administrative departments of their domicile; newborns in medical and health care institutions outside the location of the death of the parents should be in the newborn deaths of people's governments in townships (townships), the street office report within thirty days; if necessary, townships (townships), people's governments, When necessary, the township (township) people's government or street office shall verify the death, and the person concerned shall cooperate and provide relevant evidence. Township (township) people's government, street offices within thirty days of receiving the report to inform the county population and family planning administrative departments.