Law should address surge in unwanted pregnancies, says SC
New Delhi, May 5 -- The Supreme Court on Monday said the law must address the rising trend of unwanted pregnancies, as it closed a contempt plea against Union health secretary and others over implementation of its order to terminate the pregnancy of a 15-year-old in Delhi.
A bench of justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan observed, "The tendency nowadays in society is that unwanted pregnancy is on the rise."
Additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati, for the Centre, informed that pursuant to the April 24 order, termination was carried out on May 2 and the minor is now fit for discharge. Bhati said the pre-term male child has an 80% survival chance but will have lifelong deformities and is in AIIMS, Delhi's neonatal ICU, which faces a be...
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