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SC asks Centre to consider amending law on terminating pregnancy of rape survivors beyond 20 weeks
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While hearing a plea by AIIMS that sought the Supreme Court to overturn its earlier order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, the court pulled up the Centre asking it to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks.On April 24, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan had granted permission for the minor to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy.Observing that pregnancies resulting fr
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