MTP at 26 weeks: Delhi HC asks AIIMS to constitute board
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the medical superintendent of the AIIMS here to constitute a board to examine a 20-year-old woman seeking termination of pregnancy at 26 weeks. Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the authorities on a petition by the woman and asked the AIIMS to submit its report after examining the woman, who is still pursuing her studies.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on November 28.
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In her plea, the woman submitted she got pregnant through a consensual relationship, but she learned about the pregnancy recently. Advocate Amit Mishra, representing the woman, said she did not know about the pregnancy earlier, and recently started facing some medical issues. When she consulted a doctor, she learned on November 16 that she was pregnant.
She consulted doctors to terminate the pregnancy, since she was not in a condition to bear the child, but the doctors refused, since the gestation period was beyond the permissible limit of 24 weeks, the lawyer said.
The woman sought permission to undergo medical termination of her 26 weeks pregnancy under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
