Supreme Court permits woman to terminate her 24 weeks old pregnancy.

On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a petitioner, who is a rape victim, to medically terminate her 24 week old pregnancy. The reports by the Medical Boards have confirmed that there are abnormalities in her fetus. The medical report further says that continuation of such pregnancy may endanger the medical and physical health of the petitioner.
The Supreme Court in its last hearing constituted a Medical Board of doctors of the KEM Hospital in Mumbai to examine the petitioner.
Under present law, a fetus older than 20 weeks can’t be aborted unless there is extreme necessity to save the life of the mother. She challenged the provisions of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,1971.
The constitutional validity of Section 3(2) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,1971 prescribed that the pregnancy of 20 weeks has been challenged before the Supreme Court.
Every year in India out of 26 million births approximately 2.3% have major medical abnormalities. The Indian abortion laws were enacted by the Parliament for reducing the cruel incidents of illegal abortions.
As per law, pregnancies not exceeding 12 weeks may be terminated on the basis of a single opinion in goof faith. But in case of pregnancies exceeding 12 weeks but not less than 20 weeks needs the opinion of two doctors.