A 10-year-old girl pregnant with the child of her rapist stepfather will undergo an abortion this week, doctors at the leading government hospital in this Haryana city said on Tuesday. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act prohibits abortion after 20 weeks, except when the mother’s life is under risk. A medical board of eight doctors had found the girl’s pregnancy could be anywhere between 18 and 22 weeks. “The medical board took a humanistic approach and decided to abort,” said Ashok Chauhan, the medical superintendent at PGIMS. The girl and her family campaigned unsuccessfully to abort the foetus in a case that highlighted administrative apathy.

Source: Hindustan Times May 16, 2017 16:30 UTC