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The Supreme Court has mentioned these crucial ideas while hearing a woman’s right to abort a 26-week pregnancy that she does not want. These concepts are important in the US, but not so much in India. What is this case, and why are these questions important? ....
“Our law is far ahead of other countries. We don’t have the Roe vs Wade issue. Ours is a very forward looking law,” said Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, presiding over a three-judge bench, while hearing a woman’s plea to abort her 26-week-old pregnancy. ....
On Wednesday, while Justice B V Nagarathna said the petitioner’s “decision” not to continue with the pregnancy “must be respected”, Justice Hima Kohli said “my judicial conscience does not permit” to accept her request because “which court will say stop the heartbeat of a foetus which has a life”. ....
“It is also to be kept in mind that the consequences of delivery which have happened in the previous two babies can happen at this time also, with a delivery now at this time,” the doctor has said. ....