The Chhattisgarh High Court permitted a 14-year-old rape survivor to terminate her pregnancy beyond 28 weeks, holding that forcing her to continue an unwanted pregnancy would violate her dignity, bodily autonomy, privacy and reproductive rights guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
The Bombay High Court has extended the deadline for Maharashtra to form a committee protecting minors’ identities in abortion cases to four weeks. The committee aims to implement a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that allows minors to access medical termination of pregnancy services without disclosing their identities, aligning the MTP Act with the POCSO Act.
Supreme Court Dismisses Plea Challenging Provisions of MTP Act In a recent development, the Supreme Court declined to entertain a petition challenging specific sections of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act. The bench, comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra, emphasized that the Parliament had crafted these provisions keeping the […]
