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106] It is not as if all contingencies express themselves only within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Even in cases where a pregnant mother is regularly following up with her gynecologist, double marker test is undertaken between 10 th and 13th week; triple marker test between 18 th and 20th week and the crucial Anamoly scan, in or around the 20 th week. Many serious fetal 57 of 78 dss 58 Judgment-wp-10835-18-g.doc anamolies may not even be diagnosable until twenty weeks as many pregnant mothers may not even have access to suitable diagnostic tools, particularly in rural parts. In many cases, complications can develop as the pregnancy advances. In many cases, complications may be detected at some advanced stage. In such cases, as long as the medical opinion does not suggest that medical termination of pregnancy at the advance stage is itself a serious risk to the physical life of the pregnant mother, the law cannot plead helplessness particularly where circumstances set in clauses (i) and (ii) of section 3 (2)(b) of the MTP Act manifestly exist.