India: SC allows abortion of 24-week foetus, but why should women go to court in the first place?

SC allows abortion of 24-week foetus, but why should women go to court in the first place?

Ajay Kumar Jan, 16 2017, First Post

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted a woman in Mumbai to abort her 24 week foetus on the grounds that continuing with the pregnancy could endanger the life of the woman. Abortion is legal in India, but it's not at will, it's only permissible if it would involve a risk to the health of the pregnant woman.

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act makes a distinction between twelve weeks and twenty weeks. Under twelve weeks, an abortion can be prescribed by one doctor and after twelve weeks an abortion has to be be prescribed by two. If the pregnancy exceeds twenty weeks you go into the grey area of Section 5 of the Act which says that a medical practitioner, may in good faith, terminate a pregnancy if they feel it is necessary to immediately save the life of a woman.

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Source: First Post


Donald Trump’s views on abortion are dangerous – and even British women aren’t safe

by Ann Furedi Chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service

20 October 2016 • 4:29pm

Donald Trump sought to flex his pro-life credentials in this week’s third and final presidential debate by painting a gruesome picture of late term abortion. He claimed that his rival, Hillary Clinton, would allow doctors to 'rip the baby out of the womb' just days before birth.

The presidential candidate, who has jumped gamely between various positions on abortion – from declaring himself pro-choice to calling for “some sort of punishment” for women who have abortions (before rowing back on that one too) – also said he would appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade, America’s constitutional right to abortion.

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Source: The Telegraph


U.S.: Donald Trump’s Abortion Policies Would Kill Women

Trump's ignorance when it comes to women's health, as demonstrated at the final debate, would be literally deadly
By Jesse Berney, Rolling Stone
Oct 20, 2016

Dana Weinstein was pregnant with her third child, 29 weeks in, less than three months to go. She and her husband wanted this child. Then, terrible news: a routine sonogram revealed a brain anomaly that meant their baby almost certainly wouldn't survive, and whatever life it had would be full of suffering.

Imagine making the decision that faced Dana and her husband.

Now imagine Donald Trump making that decision for them.

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Source: Rolling Stone