Give information about medical termination of pregnancy.
Intentional or voluntary termination of pregnancy before full term is called medical termination of pregnancy or induced abortion.
First $12$ weeks of pregnancy or $MTP$ done during three months is considered safe. If abortion is done during other three months it is fatal.
The grounds of induced abortion are : $(i)$ The continuation of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury of physical or mental health or $(ii)$ There is a substantial risk that of the child were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.
$MTP$ is to get rid of unwanted pregnancies either due to casual unprotected intercourse or failure of the contraceptive used during coitus or rapes.
Do you justify the statutory ban on amniocentesis in our country ? Give reasons.
MTP..
Give advantages - disadvantages of $\rm {MTP}$.
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.
$MTP$ is of much risk in the phase of the pregnancy