BENGALURU: The Karnataka Higher Court regard Monday refused to permit a 15-year-old girl to terminate her six-month pregnancy.
Medical opinion and the law rule versus such an abortion as it puts the pregnant woman’s life in jeopardy, and the foetus is maturing. Sex along with a minor, also if consensual, is considered rape in Indian law. The girl had terminated one more pregnancy 11 months ago. Justice A S Bopanna disposed the writ petition filed by the girl’s mother, a domestic worker at Laggere, regard the basis of 2 reports submitted by doctors from K C Overall Hospital and Vani Vilas Hospital.
“In see of the reports, the relief sought by the petitioner cannot be granted,” he said. The girl is a ninth standard student, and was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old man, identified as Hanumanthappa.
The family learnt concerning the pregnancy just regard March 16, according to the mother’s deposition. Police arrested Hanumanthappa after the family filed a complaint.
When doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy, the mother approached the Higher Court, seeking directions for an abortion. The court after that constituted 2 committees comprising doctors from 2 government hospitals.
Obstetrics expert Dr K V Malini, senior surgeon Dr Ramesh Tambat, and senior youngster psychiatrist Dr Kasthuri P conducted a thorough examination of the girl regard March 30.
They reviewed her medical records and the FIR. They likewise researched the sights of gynaecologists from K C Overall Hospital, and the Department of youngster and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nimhans.
“The gestational age… corresponds to concerning 26-28 weeks,” the report said. It likewise noted that the girl had undergone an abortion 11 months earlier.
In 2015, the family had complained to the police that the girl had gone missing. Some days later, she returned to her hostel, saying she had gone out along with a man that had befriended her. She called your man ‘uncle’. It is not clear whether the accused in the 2nd case is the exact same man.
What the Law Says
- The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971, supplies for termination of a pregnancy if it has actually not advanced beyond twenty weeks.
- It likewise allows abortion in unique cases if a risk is seen to the life, or the bodily or psychological health, of the pregnant woman.
- A court can easily likewise rule in favour of an abortion if it finds that the pregnancy could possibly bring about the birth of a youngster suffering from “such bodily or psychological abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.”
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