India’s Apex court backs 27-week foetus’s fundamental Right to Live, rejects mother’s abortion plea

The woman’s counsel said the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act talks about the mother only. “It is made for mother,” he said. The bench said the duration of pregnancy was over seven months now. “What about the right of the child to survive? How do you address that?” the bench asked


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