Abortion of Fetus with Down’s Syndrome: India Joins the Worldwide Controversy Surrounding Abortion Laws

Alankrita Taneja; Sharath Burugina Nagaraja; Jagadish Rao Padubidri; Mohammed Madadin; Ritesh G. Menezes

doi:10.1007/s11948-017-9926-y

Abortion of Fetus with Down’s Syndrome: India Joins the Worldwide Controversy Surrounding Abortion Laws

Alankrita Taneja, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Mohammed Madadin, Ritesh G. Menezes

Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore

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Abortion continues to be a moral and ethical dilemma in medicine. While abortions in general have always faced social stigmas, the abortion of fetuses with Down’s syndrome in particular remains the subject of debate across the globe. In India, under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortion is legal under prescribed circumstances only till 20 weeks of gestation. Laws for abortion after 20 week of gestation are ill defined. In a recent ruling of the Supreme Court in India, a woman was denied the right to abortion of her 26 week old fetus. With this ruling, India has joined the rest of the world in the debate surrounding abortion laws and the ethics of abortion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	769-771
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science and Engineering Ethics
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9926-y
Publication status	Published - 01-04-2018

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