On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of amendment to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to make the law “meaningful” by allowing women to abort terminally ill fetuses beyond the current limit of 20 weeks, as reported in ET Healthworld. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said a holistic approach was needed in dealing with such cases. “You have to also see the quality of life of the mother after pregnancy. The mother will have to live under the constant threat of losing her child. The law must be stretched to make it meaningful,” it said. The court made the observations while hearing the plea of a Kolkata-based woman for medical termination of her 25 week pregnancy due to life-threatening abnormalities in the fetus … (ET Healthworld – PTI, Amit Anand Choudhary, June 24, 2017)
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Supreme Court favors amendments to MTP Act
On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of amendment to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to make the law “meaningful” by allowing women to abort terminally ill fetuses beyond the current limit of 20 weeks, as reported in ET Healthworld. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said a holistic approach was needed in dealing with such cases. “You have to also see the quality of life of the mother after pregnancy. The mother will have to live under the constant threat of losing her child. The law must be stretched to make it meaningful,” it said. The court made the observations while hearing the plea of a Kolkata-based woman for medical termination of her 25 week pregnancy due to life-threatening abnormalities in the fetus … (ET Healthworld – PTI, Amit Anand Choudhary, June 24, 2017)
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