Question

Medical termination of pregnancy is safe up to
a) 12 weeks
b) 18 weeks
c) 6 weeks
d) 10 weeks

Answer 1

Hint: Pregnancy is caused when a sperm fertilizes an egg present in the female body. It leads to the formation of an embryo and then into a child. The fertilized egg gets implanted in the uterus for further growth and development. Due to some reasons, the mother may not want to carry the baby then in such a situation, abortion is done mostly in the first trimester.

Complete answer:
MTP or medical termination of pregnancy is done when there is a need to abort a child developing in the mother’s uterus. To have a safe abortion, termination should be done within seven weeks of the first day of your last period. So up to 12 weeks, it’s safe to abort a child as it is within the first trimester.

Additional information: The medicines provided for MTP are mifepristone and misoprostol. The doctor assigns the dosage of the medicine to terminate the pregnancy. As there was an increase in the number of abortions due to unwanted girlchild so the government has assigned rules to reduce such types of abortions. Abortion can be performed in 13 weeks also but surgery is required in this to remove the pregnancy tissues from the mothers’ body. It is a single day surgery. 18 weeks of pregnancy termination usually occurs due to miscarriage. Abortions performed at this stage are risky. To avoid unwanted pregnancies there is a lot of options that men and women can choose from. Contraception is highly effective in stopping unwanted pregnancies to occur. Physical contraception or medicinal contraception can be used.
So, the answer is ’a) 12 weeks’.

Note: According to the Indian act of MTP termination done within a period of 20 weeks is legal. If there is a risk to the life of the mother then this limit does not apply. It is suggested that MTP should be done in the first trimester only. In the second trimester, it becomes risky for mothers to abort the baby.