Shocking!!! Court rejects abortion for 10 year-old girl who was defiled by her Uncle
A 10-year-old girl, who
was allegedly defiled by her uncle, will not get her to wish to abort the
pregnancy, the ruling was given by a judge at the India’s Supreme Court
on the grounds that she is too far into her pregnancy.
A doctors’ panel told the court that,
at 32 weeks, termination of the pregnancy would be “too risky”. Her pregnancy
was discovered two weeks ago when she complained of stomach ache and her
parents took her to hospital.
A lower court had earlier turned down her plea on
similar grounds. Without disclosing the details of the medical report, the
judges on Friday ruled that termination was “not good for the girl”.
They have asked the government-run
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research hospital in the
northern city of Chandigarh to ensure that proper medical care is provided to
her.
On Monday, the Supreme Court had
ordered doctors to evaluate whether the girl could undergo abortion safely.
The court order came after lawyer
Alakh Alok Srivastava filed a public interest petition saying doctors who had
already examined the girl found her pelvic bones had not fully developed
because of her age and the life of both mother and baby were at “very serious
risk”.
“Medical experts have categorically
opined that if the 10-year-old is forced to give birth, either through normal
delivery or even through caesarean-section, it may be fatal to the life of the
r*pe survivor as well as to her child,” the petition said.
The girl belongs to an extremely poor family, her father is a government employee and mother works as a domestic helper. The girl alleges she was defiled several times in the past seven months by her uncle, who has been arrested.
The girl belongs to an extremely poor family, her father is a government employee and mother works as a domestic helper. The girl alleges she was defiled several times in the past seven months by her uncle, who has been arrested.


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