'Examination of woman seeking termination of abnormal pregnancy underway'

The All India Institute of Medical Science AIIMS on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that the medical examination of a woman seeking termination of a 27week abnormal pregnancy is underway The High Court listed the matter tomorrow at 4 PMJustice Prathiba M Singh was informed by the AIIMS through an interim report that the petitioner was examined and further examination is underwayJustice Singh noted the submission and directed for a final report to be filed The matter will be heard at 4 PM tomorrowThe High court on Friday directed the AIIMS to constitute a medical board to examine the woman who has sought permission to terminate 27 weeks of pregnancy The woman has said that the foetus is suffering from cardiac abnormalityConsidering the nature of abnormality let the AIIMS constitute a medical board the bench had saidThe court had directed the petitioner to appear before the medical board at 3 PM on Saturday The bench had directed AIIMS to file a report and listed the matter on Monday at 1030 AMThe woman has approached the court through advocate Anwesh Madhukar seeking permission to terminate the pregnancyAlso Read Mumbai Skin donation up but still far from preCOVID levelsThe court noted that in the report of the ultrasound done on February 17 some abnormality was found in the foetus Thereafter the case was referred to a foetal medicine expertThe abnormality was found in the subsequent examination on February 25The court perused the report of February 25 wherein a cardiac abnormality with the foetus was foundIt is stated that no abnormality was found in the ultrasound done on January 5 2023The Petitioner is a 32yearold married woman who is currently at a 27 weeks gestational age and by way of the instant petition she has sought the intervention of the High Court in passing directions to conduct medical termination of her pregnancy under Section 32B Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 as amended by the MTP Amendment Act 2021Given the fact that time is of the essence in the present case and also owing to the substantial foetal abnormalities the Petitioner has approached this Court for enforcement of her Right to life under Article 21 Constitution of India and has sought directions against the Respondents qua medical termination of her pregnancy under Section 32B Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act1970 the petition statedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever