The millennials today are treating just about everything casually, including in some cases – abortion. There have been reports of abortion cases in children as young as 12 years old.
In one such case, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the AIIMS to form a medical board to decide if a 15-year-old girl, who is four months pregnant from an alleged marriage she had with a man after running away from her home, could be terminated safely.
The high court’s order came after the girl, who is over four months pregnant, pleaded that she wanted to terminate the pregnancy to pursue with her studies.
The high court directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to submit its report by December 22.
The girl had gone missing since March 31, after she left home following an altercation with her mother. She was recovered from Narora village in Bulandsher district of Uttar Pradesh after her parent moved the high court with a petition to find her.
While the man, with whom she ran away, has been taken into custody on November 27, she was sent to Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre as she refused to go with her parents. Later, she went back to her parents.
On December 8, 2017, she appeared before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and expressed her desire to undergo a medical procedure to terminate her pregnancy.
When she was sent for medical examination at the AIIMS on December 13, she retracted from her previous statement saying that she was “not willing for abortion and her pregnancy is a result of marriage.”
Later, her father moved the high court seeking immediate constitution of a medical board at the AIIMS to examine if it was medically safe to terminate the pregnancy.
On Tuesday the girl appeared before the court. The judges had a conversation with her inside the judge’s chamber where she said that she had re-thought her position and wanted to terminate the pregnancy to pursue her studies.
The high court noted that the girl had made contradictory statements before the CWC, the medical board at the AIIMS and then before the court.
On the court’s order to come clean on the issue, the girl on Wednesday filed an affidavit saying she wanted to terminate the pregnancy.
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