more-inOn Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined a woman’s plea to abort her 26-week-old foetus detected with Down’s Syndrome. Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves argued that it was the woman’s constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy. It said the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 places a 20-week ceiling on termination of pregnancy. In the case of the foetus with Down’s Syndrome, the court said the foetus posed no danger to the woman’s life. Had the draft Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill of 2014 been implemented as law, this case would not have come to court at all.

Source: The Hindu March 02, 2017 18:45 UTC