Review abortion law, SC to Centre over teen pregnancy termination

The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to a plea by AIIMS seeking to set aside its order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, and asked the Centre to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks. 
The top court said when there is pregnancy due to rape, there should not be a time limit. Law needs to be organic and in sync with evolving time, it stressed. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said this is a case of child rape and the survivor will have a lifelong scar and trauma if termination is not allowed. "Let us not make this a fight between the state and its citizens. Bring in a psychiatrist and counsellor (to help the girl and her family). Let us not choose for people capable of choosing." The top court said if the mother does not have permanent disability then it should be carried out.
"This is a curative petition. Unwanted pregnancy cannot be thrusted on a person. Imagine she is a child. She should be studying now. But we want to make her a mother. Imagine the pain, the humiliation the child has suffered in this," the bench said. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for AIIMS, , mentioned the curative plea, and said the termination of pregnancy is not possible., mentioned the curative plea, and said the termination of pregnancy is not possible.