A medical board at Lalla Ded Hospital, Srinagar, must urgently decide a 31-week termination plea, the J&K and Ladakh High Court has directed, remarking that doctors are not shouldering their duties under the MTP Act. Srinagar: Directing the Superintendent of Lalla Ded Hospital, Srinagar, to constitute a competent medical board to take an urgent decision […]
Abortion beyond 24 weeks was refused to a woman who says her husband hid an earlier marriage; the Bombay High Court held that “relief cannot exceed the four corners of statute”. Mumbai: Turning down a 33-year-old married woman’s plea to have her pregnancy medically terminated under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 1971, because […]
