Discuss lawful standards for $\rm {MTP}$.

Generally $45$ to $50$ million $MTPs$ are performed in a year all over the world which accounts to $1 / 5$ th of the total number of conceived pregnancies in a year.

Whether to accept / legalise $MTP$ or not is being debated upon in many countries due to emotional ethical, religious and social issues involved in it.

Government of India legalized $MTP$ in $1971$ with some strict conditions to avoid its misuse.

The law of $MTP$ was improved in $2017 .$

According to this law, a pregnant women can undergo $MTP$ up to $12$ weeks of pregnancy by a certified doctor. But if pregnancy is more than $12$ weeks and less than $24$ weeks then by advice of two doctors $MTP$ can be done.