Recently the Supreme Court allowed a 22-year-old woman to terminate her 24-weeks pregnancy on the ground that it would endanger her life. A bench of Justices perused the opinion of the medical board it had constituted to examine her health condition. The bench said in view of the opinion of well-known Mumbai-based Hospital’s medical board, it will be appropriate to allow the woman to terminate her pregnancy. The board has opined that the fetus besides suffering various anomalies, has shrunken lungs and lacks kidneys and continuing with the pregnancy would endanger the life of the mother.
The bench also relied on earlier verdicts of the apex court and allowed the woman’s prayer to terminate her pregnancy. On February 5, the apex court had constituted a medical board to examine the “condition and advisability” of permitting medical termination of her pregnancy. She had approached the apex…
