Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 275 · Decided 27 March 2017
Sheetal Shankar Salvi and ANR. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 275 · [2017] 2 S.C.R. 939
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 174/2017
- Decided
- 27 March 2017
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, L. NAGESWARA RAO (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 2I, 32
Headnote
Constitution of India - Art.2I - Personal liberty - Woman :S right to make reproductive choices - Medical termination of pregnancy-Petitioner no.} into her 27 weeks of pregnancy- Fetus diagnosed with Arnold Clwiri malformation Type 2 with meningo myelocele with tethered cord - Report that the mother :S physical condition was normal and there was no phys_ical risk to the mother, due to continuation or termination of pregnancy but she was anxious about outcome of pregnancy; the fetus had severe physical anomalies which would compromise post natal quality of life and the
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