Der Oberste Gerichtshof Indiens erlaubt die Abtreibung einer 30-wöchigen Schwangerschaft einer Minderjährigen und wahrt das Recht auf reproduktive Autonomie
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-allows-abortion-of-30-week-pregnancy-of-a-minor-upholds-right-to-reproductive-autonomy/article70600629.ece
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“If the interest of the mother is to be taken note of, then her reproductive autonomy must be given sufficient emphasis. The court cannot compel any woman, much less a minor, to complete her pregnancy if she is otherwise not intending to do so,” the Bench said.
The court also flagged the fact that there were cases in which women may have no other option but take the dangerous and life-threatening alternative of turning to quacks for an abortion if their pregnancy had crossed the 24-week deadline stipulated under the MTP (Medical Termination of Pregnancy) Act, 1971.
30 weeks are 7,5 months!
Progress at last in a country that needs it
Well, hey! This is a success
Disgusting. Babies can feel pain at point in gestation.
This is very odd tbh. There’s no way of getting that baby out without the poor child having to give birth at this point – either via c-section or vaginal delivery – so the only success here is that fetocide is administered first? (Which is a needle to her uterus…also not fun.)
I mean, no part of pregnancy and childbirth is pleasant, and even the smoothest, earliest abortion is highly uncomfortable. The courts dragged their heels too long on this; it feels like it’s at the point where you may as well allow the fetus to be delivered alive and absolve her of parental responsibility. It won’t make a difference to the procedures she’ll have to endure.
Realistically how many women would choose to have an abortion at that point?
This is about the woman’s (child’s) right to refuse forced motherhood outweighing fetal viability.
That is pro choice. We don’t get to force children to be pregnant or carry to full term, we don’t get to say they give live birth instead of abortion – that’s *bodily autonomy*.
This doesn’t mean people can all suddenly get a late term abortion just like they haven’t been able to prior to this. This is reserved for special circumstances like this one.
Don’t feel so good about this, and I can see a decision like this stirring up the abortion debate in India to the negative, which is ironic India has historically been much more progressive on abortion than the U.S…
**EDT: Did some more reading on this case and even as per this article, it was CONSENSUAL sex between two minors/teens. There is no reason to allow a nearly full term fetus aka premie baby in this case, to be killed. If you’re going to insult me by saying I’m not actually pro-choice for being happy with this as an Indian woman, then go ahead. I’m pro-common sense. This is a case of teens having sex and then deciding to do away with the baby wayyyy too close to birth.**
**At 7.5 months, the girl will have to physically deliver regardless! Whether an alive baby, or a dead one.** I am usually 100% for abortion in cases of rape, but 7.5 is almost full term! At this point, either wait another few weeks and induce birth. Put the baby under governmental care and terminate parental rights. Killing a “fetus” at 7.5 months for no medical reason is cruelty. AGAIN, the girl (who is actually a teen) will have to delivery anyways!!! Wait another 2 weeks or at least induce birth instead of killing the baby.
Viability is as early as 22 weeks with modern medicine. Laws that allow abortion this late are pure evil and there’s other way to put it.
There’s no way you can argue it isn’t infanticide at that point. Deliver the baby and give it up for adoption for fucks sake.
I guess everybody in the comments concerned will rush to go adopt a baby from India. Or do something about female infanticide rates? Right? Right? You aren’t going to? Okay then.
Sad. Hope she’s ok.
Pro-choice as hell myself…..to a limit… that child can survive outside the womb. A lot of pro-choice arguments don’t make sense here.
Stuff like this makes progressives appear stupid and gives power to the conservative parties.
At 30 weeks that would be considered a stillborn.
This isn’t woke or liberal so please don’t read it so it’s just basic common sense. Bringing a child into this world must be treated as a significant responsibility and not as a must do or on pseudo moralistic grounds.
A child needs to be loved and cared for and for that it needs to be wanted first and foremost by its own parents.
That said why did they allow it to be delayed to this extent? Should ah e allowed her to do this much before do her own health. Plus
It’s now a baby and not a foetus anymore.
Before my son was born he would put his ear up next to my voice. When I moved he would move to put his ear where I was.
There is a person in there.
It is deeply and horribly awful that a minor – a child herself – is in such a position.
People are missing the fact that there is absolutely no way this case got to India Supreme Court quickly. If this girl is 30 weeks now, how far along was she when she first tried to get an abortion?
People crying about the baby being viable: how long has that girl been FORCED to carry that unwanted fetus? She didn’t wake up one day in herv3rd trimester and decide she wanted an abortion, she has been fighting to get one for a while and the people in CONTROL of her have been trying to prevent it hoping to FORCE HER TO GIVE BIRTH