Mumbai: The JJ Hospital Medical Council told Bombay HC in a hearing on the cessation of a 33-week pregnancy (MTP) that the fetal condition meets the criteria of “a very high physical disability risk with very high morbidity and very high.
Death”.
It added that since the pregnancy was outside the cut-off of 20 weeks under the law of MTP and even the 24-week extended limit in the amendment, this case requires HC approval.
HC gives permission and, given the urgency, directs it to be done quickly at JJ Hospital.
The results report must be given to the bench in September.
Last October, Bombay HC has allowed a 35-year-old woman to stop a 32-week pregnancy, where the fetus has a serious heart anomalies.
The 20-year-old pregnant woman applied for HC for MTP permits, citing severe abnormalities in the fetus.
After hearing his lawyer Shraddha Vavhal and Amit Shastri, a government applicant, HC had directed the JJ Hospital group on August 23 to form a medical board to examine the woman and submit a report.
The medical council said that “termination of pregnancy at a gestation of 33 weeks brings the same risk as pregnant women who cannot be more than delivery in the future.
The council suggested MTP, said “Pregnant women have voluntarily expressed their desire to stop pregnancy and get information about the nature of fetal conditions and results.
He is sad with the condition of the fetus in Utero”.
In April 2019, in an important assessment, ABHAY JUMINE OKA and MS Sanklecha, after analyzing all relevant laws related to MTP and constitutional rights, said HC permits must be sought when the pregnancy exceeds 20 weeks (as a legal cut – Poff at that time) and the woman “worried that the continuation will involve a big injury to its physical or mental health or where there is a substantial risk that if the child is born, it will suffer serious physical or mental abnormalities to be held seriously”.
HC has said: “In such cases, pregnant women must ask permission from the High Court and unless the permit is given, there are no registered medical practitioners who can stop the pregnancy.”