If the fetus's gender is revealed for abortion, doctors will be suspended from practice

Lawyer Ho Thu Trang, YouMe Law Company Limited answers:

Article 6 of the 2025 Population Law (effective from July 1, 2026) stipulates prohibited acts as follows:

1. Propagate, disseminate or provide information with false content, distorting the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws on population.

2. Obstructing propaganda, education, information dissemination, population counseling, family planning, and access to population services.

3. Choosing the gender of the fetus in all forms; notifying and disclosing the gender of the fetus, except for cases prescribed by the Minister of Health to serve the diagnosis and treatment of gender-related diseases.

4. Coercion, coercion to have children or not have children.

5. Stigma and discrimination in accessing population services.

6. Human cloning.

Article 15 of the 2025 Population Law stipulates the reduction of gender imbalance at birth as follows:

1. Encourage the inclusion of the content of not valuing men more than women, not choosing gender at birth in village regulations and conventions of the residential community.

2. Suspension of practicing medical examination and treatment for people who have acts of notifying and disclosing fetal gender for abortion and the suspension of practicing medical examination and treatment is carried out in accordance with the provisions of law on medical examination and treatment.

3. Periodically every year, the Central Statistical Agency announces the gender imbalance at birth for the Government and provincial-level local authorities to develop and implement appropriate intervention measures to minimize gender imbalance at birth.

Thus, from July 1, 2026, doctors may be suspended from practicing medical examination and treatment if they disclose the gender of the fetus for abortion according to the above regulations.