The MTP Amendment Act of India (2021) allows termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks for which specific category of women with a single registered medical practitioner's opinion?

• A Survivors of rape, incest, or minors, and women with disabilities ✓
• B All women who request termination up to 20 weeks
• C Any married woman whose contraception has failed
• D Women with fetal abnormalities detected on antenatal ultrasound

Explanation

The MTP Amendment Act 2021 extended the gestational limit to 24 weeks for specific vulnerable categories requiring only ONE registered medical practitioner's opinion: survivors of sexual assault/rape, incest, minors, women with disability, mentally ill women, and women in cases of humanitarian settings or fetal abnormalities (although fetal abnormalities at any gestation require Medical Board approval, not just single RMP). Between 20–24 weeks, a second RMP opinion is needed for women with substantial medical conditions as per amended rule. For contraceptive failure, the amendment extends to 20 weeks for any woman (married or unmarried).

Reference: Shaw's Textbook of Gynaecology, 17th ed.

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