The Bombay Excessive Court docket final week permitted 18-year-old woman, who claimed to be a sufferer of sexual assault to terminate her 28-week being pregnant.
In its order on February 20, the courtroom mentioned, “Acutely aware of the best of the Petitioner to reproductive freedom, her autonomy over the physique and her proper to alternative and having thought-about the findings and opinion of the Medical Board, we allow the Petitioner to medically terminate the being pregnant, if she so needs.”
A bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela Okay Gokhale handed the order on a plea argued by advocate Ashley Cusher, claiming that the being pregnant of the petitioner was because of sexual assault by a person who had bodily relations after giving false promise to marry her.
On February 17, the HC directed state-run J J Hospital to represent a medical board of professional medical doctors to look at the petitioner. The board discovered that the petitioner was mentally and bodily match to endure the termination process. The panel additionally mentioned that there was no point out of current process affecting future pregnancies of the petitioner.
The HC then interacted with one of many medical doctors, who additional knowledgeable that medical doctors conducting the process shall resolve the way of termination of being pregnant, which shall be in one of the best curiosity of the petitioner.
The courtroom expressed its satisfaction over the report and mentioned that the current case fell inside the provision of Part 3(2)(b)(i) of Medical Termination of Being pregnant (MTP) Act which prescribes termination of being pregnant of a sufferer of rape as a consequence of grave harm to her psychological well being.
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