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A insignificant kid cannot beryllium forced to carnivore a pregnancy, the Supreme Court of India said connected Thursday (April 30, 2026) portion pulling up the Centre and asking it to amend the instrumentality to licence rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies adjacent beyond 20 weeks.
In a ruling with acold reaching implications for rape survivors, including children, and the contented of autonomy implicit their bodies, a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi took beardown objection to a plea by AIIMS seeking to acceptable speech the apex tribunal bid allowing a 15-year-old miss to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy.
"Please amend your instrumentality that erstwhile determination is gestation owed to rape etc, past clip regulation volition not beryllium there. The instrumentality needs to beryllium integrated and successful sync evolving times. Also amend the instrumentality truthful that specified trials are completed wrong a week. Why should the kid endure the pending trauma of the proceedings also," the CJI said.
