Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 52 · Decided 16 January 2017
Meera Santosh Pal and ORS. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 52 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 261
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 17/2017
- Decided
- 16 January 2017
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, L. NAGESWARA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21, 32
Headnote
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 ~ s.3(2)(i) - Womans right to make reproductive choices and bodily integrity - Writ petition seeking direction to the respondents to allow petitioner no. l to undergo medical termination of her pregnancy as she apprehended danger to her life, having with Anencephaly, a defect that leaves foetal skull bones unformed and is both untreatable and certain to cause the infants death during or shor1ly after birth - Held: Report of the Medical Board clearly warrants the inference that continuance of the pregnancy involves ~Tsk to the life of
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