The board, after thoroughly examining her, gave its report favouring abortion. Accepting the report, the bench granted her permission to undergo abortion "forthwith".The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971, permits abortion till the fetus is 20 weeks old. In July last year, the court had allowed a rape survivor's distress plea to abort her 24-week pregnancy citing serious abnormalities with the fetus. In a similar case, a minor rape victim from Gujarat allowed to abort 22-week fetus.But in another case, the court had turned down the plea of women who wanted to abort as fetus was suffering from down syndrome. The court had said that there was no danger to life of the women and abortion could not be allowed.

Source: Times of India July 03, 2017 12:22 UTC