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Legal Medicine of Pregnancy, Abortion and Birth in India
Legal Medicine of Pregnancy, Abortion and Birth in India
INFANTICIDE, ABORTION,
STERILITY, IMPOTENCY and
DOWRY DEATH
GROUP 11
PREGNANCY
• Pregnancy is the state of a woman who has within her body the
growing product of conception or a fecundated germ. It
commences from the time the egg cell is fertilized and terminates
at the time such product of conception is expelled or delivered.