{"id":326635,"date":"2025-02-21T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=326635"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:30:15","slug":"india-high-court-abort-25-week-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/india-high-court-abort-25-week-child\/","title":{"rendered":"India high court rules woman can abort 25-week preborn child"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in India has received permission from a high court to abort her 25-week old preborn child, even though the nation’s cutoff for abortion is 24 weeks.<\/p>\n

Indian Express<\/a> reports that the Bombay High Court ruled on February 13 that the 35-year-old woman could abort her child because the baby had been diagnosed with skeletal dysplasia. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine<\/a>, this is “the medical term for a group of about 400 conditions that affect bone development, neurological function and cartilage growth, including its most common form,\u00a0achondroplasia.” Treatment is varied depending on the severity of the condition, and may involve future surgeries; while some children with the condition do die shortly after birth, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia<\/a> emphasizes that “not all children with dysplasias have severe medical problems,” and “many of these children can live relatively normal lives.”<\/p>\n

Regardless of the severity of the condition, no child should be killed by abortion due to a medical condition. At 25 weeks, the preborn child could potentially survive outside the womb if given proper medical treatment, can open his eyes and hear and respond to sounds, and has the ability to feel pain<\/a>. Every human being, regardless of level of development, has the right to not be unjustly killed.<\/p>\n