Plea seeking amendments to MTP Act: HC seeks Maharashtra Govt reply
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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on a PIL seeking amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act to allow rape victims to undergo an abortion even after the currently-permitted limit of 20 weeks.
The plea filed by a local NGO has cited previous incidents, where the apex court and several high courts were forced to deny such a permission to rape victims, owing to the limitations of the act.
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