1. | The continuation of the pregnancy would involve a risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of grave injury to physical or mental health. |
2. | 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. |
3. | Prenatal sex determination has determined the foetus to be female. |
4. | Pregnancy as a result of sexual assault. |
Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Genital herpes, Chlamydiasis, Genital warts, Trichomoniasis, Hepatitis-B, HIV |
1. | assist the couple to have children |
2. | are financed by the Government to develop newer contraceptives |
3. | mean the contraceptive devices that can be put in place only by medical professionals |
4. | assist the couple to find out any chromosomal anomaly in the developing foetus |
I: | ova from the wife/donor (female) and sperms from the husband/donor (male) are collected and are induced to form zygote under simulated conditions in the laboratory. |
II: | the zygote or early embryos (with upto 8 blastomeres) could then be transferred into the fallopian tube. |
III: | Embryos with more than 8 blastomeres, can be transferred into the uterus to complete its further development. |
I: | Infertility cases either due to inability of the male partner to inseminate the female or due to very low sperm counts in the ejaculates, could be corrected by artificial insemination (AI) technique. |
II: | In this technique, the semen collected either from the husband or a healthy donor is artificially introduced either into the vagina or into the uterus (IUI – intra-uterine insemination) of the female. |
I: | a pregnancy may be terminated on certain considered grounds within the first 6 weeks of pregnancy on the opinion of one registered medical practitioner. |
II: | if the pregnancy has lasted more than 6 weeks, but fewer than 12 weeks, two registered medical practitioners must be of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the required ground exist to terminate the pregnancy. |