The drug RU-486 is taken after sexual intercourse. It blocks implantation, and in this sense it prevents pregnancy_.

1. like spermicidal foam

2. in a manner similar to tubal ligation

3. like the familiar birth control pill used for the last 30 years

4 by blocking progesterone receptors in the uterus, thus preventing progesterone from maintaining pregnancy

Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) is considered safe up to how many weeks of

pregnancy?

1. Twelve weeks                   

2. Eighteen weeks

3. Six weeks                         

4. Eight weeks

MTP is:

1. Medical Termination of Pregnancy           

2. Also called induced abortion

3. Both (1) and (2)                             

4. Aimed at decreasing population size

MTP was legalised in India in:

(1) 1971

(2) 1951

(3) 1981

(4) 1923

MTPs are considered relatively safe during the _______ trimester; _______ trimester abortions are riskier:

1. First, second

2. Second, first

3. Third, first

4. Third, second