Question

do MTP can check population growth it is not meant for this purpose give reason​

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In the summer of 2017, the Supreme Court of India denied permission to abort a 26-week-old foetus, detected with Down syndrome at 22 weeks, to a family which already had a child with special needs, on the grounds that the 20-week mark specified in The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 had been crossed. An Act well formulated and ahead of its time at inception seems not to have kept pace with technology and to be in need of change. We argue that by denying the abortion the Court did not adhere to the core principle of ethics—respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice—as the mother was not allowed to decide for herself and was forced to abide by the decision taken by the court.

Population control is an important but neglected social benefit of abortion. To examine this role, the outhors compared population growth rates and abortion (legal and illegal) incidence rates for the 116 largest countries in the world. These 116 countries were first ranked by their abortion rates into 4 groups: very high (greater than 500/1000 live births), high (201-500/1000), moderate (50-200/1000) and low (less than 50/1000). Then each of these 4 groups was ranked according to contraceptive prevalence: very high (60% or above), high (40-59%), moderate (15-39%), and low (less than 15%). Within each of the 16 groups, the countries were then ranked according to their population growth rate. The age distribution and mortality of children under 5 years of age were also considered for each country.