A pregnant female comes at 10 weeks of gestation for MTP. Legally MTP is acceptable up to how much period?
Medical termination of pregnancy is permitted upto 20 weeks or 140 days. When the pregnancy exceeds 12 weeks opinion of two medical practitioners is required. In India, aboion was legalised by Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971, and was reinforced in April 1972. The provisions of the act have been revised in 1975. Provisions laid under the MTP act: The continuation of pregnancy would involve serious risk of life or grave injury to the physical and mental health of the pregnant women. There is a substantial risk of the child being born with serious physical and mental abnormalities so as to be handicapped in life. When the pregnancy is caused by rape, both in cases of major and minor girl and in mentally imbalanced women. Pregnancy caused as a result of failure of a contraceptive. Ref: Textbook of Obstetrics by D C Dutta, 6th edn, page 173-4
49 days
63 days
72 days
140 days