The MTP Act,1971

Pemutusan Medis Undang-Undang Kehamilan, 1971

Abortion in India is legal only up to twenty weeks of pregnancy under specific conditions and situations which are broadly defined as:

the continuance of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury of physical or mental health, or

there is a substantial risk that if the child were born, it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.