The Delhi High Court disallowed MTP for a woman, a recent widow, after the medical board said that foeticide was neither justified nor ethical when the foetus showed no abnormality
In a laudable verdict, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to distinguish between a married and unmarried woman with regard to her right to safe abortion between 20 and 24 weeks
In a noteworthy judgment, the Delhi High Court allowed a woman to terminate her 28-week pregnancy as the foetus was suffering from defects. This was a departure from the earlier 24 weeks’ limit for MTP.
Bombay High Court bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and Milind Jadhav has disallowed medical termination of pregnancy to a woman, who wanted the procedure in her 22nd week of pregnancy, because ultra sonograph pictures have shown that the foetus has a left cleft lip and cleft palate deformity.
The Delhi High Court has allowed the medical termination of pregnancy of a minor rape survivor 22 weeks into her pregnancy, considering the psychological complications.