Q.The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, passed by the Government of India, was primarily introduced to:

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The MTP Act's central purpose is to make abortion, where medically justified, safe and legal instead of illegal and dangerous. …

Before the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act existed, women seeking to end a pregnancy in India often had no lawful, hygienic option and turned to untrained persons or unsafe methods, a major and largely preventable cause of maternal death and injury. The Act sets out specific medical and legal grounds under which a registered practitioner may lawfully terminate a pregnancy, converting what had often been a dangerous, clandestine act into a safe, medically supervised one. It is not a blanket permission to abort at will, nor is it a population-control …

Ask what problem the law was written to solve: unsafe, illegal abortion and its consequences -- no …

Assuming MTP permits termination for any reason, including sex selection -- the Act specifies medical grounds only, and sex-selective termina …