{"id":49900,"date":"2017-09-22T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2017-09-22T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T04:59:26","slug":"sc-allows-two-minor-rape-victims-terminate-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-allows-two-minor-rape-victims-terminate-pregnancies","title":{"rendered":"SC allows two minor rape victims to terminate pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47555\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-upholds-life-term-3-killing-gujarat-shiv-sena-leader\/sc-upholds-life-term\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"299,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SC upholds life term\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?fit=299%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=299%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC allows two minor rape victims to terminate pregnancies\" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?resize=150%2C85&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC allows two minor rape victims to terminate pregnancies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">The Supreme Court today allowed two minor rape victims from Delhi and Bengaluru to abort their foetus while observing that the medical boards have said termination of pregnancy was permissible in these two cases.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra perused the reports of the medical boards of the AIIMS and Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, where both the minors were examined in pursuance to its orders.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">The bench, also comprising Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar, directed preservation of the terminated foetus for DNA sampling during the investigation in both the cases.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">As per the medical report from AIIMS, there was no risk involved in aborting the foetus of a 13-year-old girl, who is in her 23rd week of pregnancy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">Similarly, the medical board of the Bengaluru hospital opined that the 24-week-old foetus of the 17-year-old girl can be aborted.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">The bench said that medical expense of the process of termination of pregnancy would be borne by the respective states.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">Section 3(2)(b) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act prohibits abortion of a foetus after 20 weeks of pregnancy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><br style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\" \/><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;\">Both the rape survivors had approached the apex court seeking its permission to abort their respective foetus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #383636; font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today allowed two minor rape victims from Delhi and Bengaluru to abort their foetus while observing that the medical boards have said termination of pregnancy was permissible in these two cases.A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra perused the reports of the medical boards of the AIIMS and Bangalore Medical College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,117,80,40059,40477],"class_list":["post-49900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-medical-termination-of-pregnancy-act","tag-supreme-court-allows-two-minor-rape-victims-to-terminate-pregnancies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC allows two minor rape victims to terminate pregnancies - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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