The Supreme Court today allowed a Pune-based 25-week-old pregnant woman to abort her foetus keeping in view the fact that her baby in the womb was suffering from some abnormality.

A two-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice SA Bobde and also comprising Justice L Nageswar Rao, allowed her plea to abort her fetus.
The SC allowed to abort the fetus of the 25-week-old pregnant woman, keeping in view the fact that the foetus was having some abnormalities.The SC said, "keeping in view the fact that there were some serious abnormalities in the fetus of the petitioner, woman, we allow her to abort the same." The woman, a native of Pune, had knocked the doors of the apex court seeking to abort her fetus