Medical Termination of Pregnancy in India: Progressive or Regressive?
By Bhavika Behal & Sukeerat Kaur Channi
5 min readMar 21, 2021
In India, medical termination of pregnancy was legalized through the 1971 act which was limited in its statute: it allowed abortion only in cases of risk to life, rape or incest. A provision was also made for the termination in cases of failure of contraceptive, but it only applied…
