New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday passed an ad-interim order to allow an unmarried woman to abort her pregnancy of 24 weeks arising out of a live-in relationship, subject to a medical board constituted by the AIIMS Delhi concluding that the foetus can be aborted without risk to the life of the woman.
A bench led by Justices DY Chandrachud observed that the Delhi High Court took an “unduly restrictive” view of the provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules while declining the woman interim relief.
“Petitioner should not be denied the benefit merely on the ground that she is an unmarried woman”, the Court observed in its order.
The bench was considering the petition filed by a 25-year-old unmarried woman, seeking termination of her pregnancy of 24 weeks which had arisen out of a consensual relationship against Delhi High Court’s order of refusing to grant her the said relief.