All the following are uses of amniocentesis, but one is misuse. Which one is misuse?

  • A

    The centres for genetic counselling offer amniocentesis on request to women for chromosome analysis

  • B

    This technique has been developed for detecting foetal abnormalities by analysing chromosomal defects

  • C

    It is used to study metabolic defects of foetus like $PKU$ (phenyl ketonuria)

  • D

    It is done to examine the sex of the foetus leading to increasing female foeticides

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Medical Termination of Pregnancy $(MTP)$ is considered safe up to how many weeks of pregnancy?

  • [AIPMT 2011]

Statement $1$: Mother should not be blamed for the birth of the girls in the family

Statement $2$: Father is not responsible for the sex of the child

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion $A$ and other is labelled as Reason $R$.

Assertion $A$ : Amniocentesis for sex determination is one of the strategies of Reproductive and Child Health Care Programme.

Reason $R$ : Ban on amniocentesis checks increasing menace of female foeticide.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

  • [NEET 2023]

Strict conditions are to be followed in medical termination of pregnancy $\rm {(MTP)}$ procedures. Mention two reasons.

Give information about medical termination of pregnancy.