Apex court junks woman's plea to end 26-wk pregnancy amid marital discord
New Delhi, Nov. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a married woman's plea to terminate her nearly 26-week pregnancy, holding that a consensual pregnancy within a subsisting marriage cannot be terminated merely because the couple developed differences after conception, while underlining that reproductive autonomy must be considered in the context of the facts of each case.
A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan said there was a vital distinction between cases involving minors, rape survivors or women covered by statutory exceptions under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act and a case where a couple had consensually conceived a child during marriage but subsequently fell out over marital differences. "We are no...
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