HC allows woman to end over 23-week pregnancy as foetus had serious abnormalities

The Delhi High Court has allowed a woman to terminate her over 23-week pregnancy as her foetus had several abnormalities and the baby would have required multiple surgeries right after birth to survive.

A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad said there was a "substantial risk" that the baby would, after birth, suffer from abnormalities that would be "seriously detrimental to its healthy and normal life".

"The child would be exposed to numerous intra operative and post operative complications and if any such problems arise, it would affect the quality of its life.

"The lack of compatibility of the foetus with a healthy and normal life is, therefore, looming large," the