MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT, 1971 'Registered Medical Practitioner' is defined under Section 2(d) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971. 'A Registered Medical Practitioner,' according to it, is any medical practitioner who possesses the required medical qualifications, as defined in Section 2 of the Indian Medical Council Act 1956, and whose name has been registered in the state medical register, as well as the required medical skills in gynaecology and obstetrics as prescribed by the said act. Abortion, a topic that is frequently discussed in medico-legal circles, intersects various streams of thought and multiple disciplines, such as theology, because most religions have something to say about it, ethics, because human conduct and its moral evaluation are the basic issues involved; medicine (in several of its sub-disciplines), because interference with the body for a curative or supposedly curative issue is at focus; and law, becau