What are the conditions in which medical termination of pregnancy is advised ?
-to get rid of unwanted pregnancies either due to casual unprotected intercourse or failure of the contraceptive used during coitus or rapes. $MTPs$ are also essential in certain cases where continuation of the pregnancy could be harmful or even fatal either to the mother or to the foetus or both.
Discuss lawful standards for $\rm {MTP}$.
Induced abortion is
MTP..
$A$ : Nearly $20\;\%$ of the total pregnancies get aborted world-wide.
$R$ : Under $MTP$ Act, $1971$ medical termination of pregnancy can be done upto $20$ weeks but it is safe upto $12\; weeks$ of pregnancy
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