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That's the title of the article all over the internet.  That horrible Supreme Court is making a ten year old suffer through a pregnancy when she was a victim of rape.  The media is ridiculous.

 

The rape and pregnancy were not reported at all until she was about 27-28 weeks pregnant.  Indian law only allows abortion up to 20 weeks.  She is now 8 months pregnant.  This girl was raped repeatedly by her uncle.  Her family is at fault on this one - not the Indian Supreme Court.  

 

The headline should read something like "Family allows uncle to rape 10 year old girl repeatedly and doesn't report pregnancy until it is too late to do anything."

 

New Delhi (CNN)India's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by a 10-year-old rape victim to have an abortion.

The high court's judges said they could not allow a termination to the pregnancy because "abortion was neither good for the girl nor for the fetus," according to the Hindustan Times.
 
 
India has a ban on terminating pregnancies that progress beyond 20 weeks. Under India's Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the country doesn't allow abortion after that period unless "the termination of such pregnancy is immediately necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman."
In this case, the pregnancy was reported by the family to the police between 26th and 27th week of pregnancy, according to the victim's lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, who took the case to India's Supreme court.
"So in this case when the pregnancy was reported, it was already too late," Srivastava told CNN.
He added, "That is the main problem. The problem is we cannot always blame police or court or judicial system. We also have to reflect ourselves as a family or society that where and how we failed to give adequate care and caution that was required to the child."
The girl, a resident of the Northern Indian city of Chandigarh, is eight months pregnant. She was allegedly raped repeatedly by her maternal uncle for months, according to Srivastava. The uncle has been arrested, he said.
Indira Jaising, a senior lawyer for India's Supreme Court and a leading voice on sexual assault and domestic violence, agreed that an abortion wasn't possible at this late stage.
"But the real problem is not whether an abortion is possible but whether the pregnancy can be terminated by any other means, including caesarian section," Jaising told CNN. "Allowing her to go into labor is a recipe for possible death."
She also blames the "indifference" of the medical profession.
"It is a class issue, it is an issue of access to medical services," she said. "It is an issue of access to proper information about how to deal with this situation. It is alarming that a medical professional did not attend to this much earlier."
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The victim's family is extremely poor, said Srivastava.
"The girl's father is a guard, and her mother is a domestic help working in various households," Srivastava told CNN, adding that's why he took the case to the Supreme Court.
"After me taking the case, at least two things have been done: The girls will be given best medical care during pregnancy," Srivastava said.
And secondly, the court has directed the government to consider setting up permanent medical boards in every state so that they can make prompt decisions on early abortion.
"This is important because there are people who belong to the poorest section of the society and the remotest part of India," Srivastava said. "So everyone cannot travel to the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court has asked the government to ensure every state has a permanent medical board who can make the judgment and decide abortion is permissible or not, so that people don't have to travel to the Supreme Court."
India has a grim record of sexual assaults on minors, with 20,000 cases of rape or sexual assaults reported in 2015, according to government data reported by AFP.
In May, the high court allowed a 10-year-old from the northern state of Haryana who had been raped to abort her fetus at nearly 21 weeks into the pregnancy.

Sugam Pokharel reported from New Delhi and Chandrika Narayan reported and wrote from Atlanta. Anish Gawande in Hong Kong contributed to this story.



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The uncle needs to be castrated.

That poor girl. :(

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The high court's judges said they could not allow a termination to the pregnancy because "abortion was neither good for the girl nor for the fetus,"

ABORTION IS NEVER GOOD FOR THE FETUS!

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So who is going to be responsible for this child
once it is born - both physically and financially?

My personal feeling is that the baby should be
placed into the arms of any one of the judges
who made this decision, and make it his/her
responsibility to raise the child until at least
the age of 18. What a bunch of turds.



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Both the baby and the mother need to be removed, put into a safe environment. If the 10 year old wants to stay in the baby's life, that absolutely needs to happen.

The sad thing is, they will both most likely be shunned by their family and community. 

 



-- Edited by lilyofcourse on Monday 31st of July 2017 03:23:06 PM

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Very sad for the girl.

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Momala wrote:



So who is going to be responsible for this child
once it is born - both physically and financially?

My personal feeling is that the baby should be
placed into the arms of any one of the judges
who made this decision, and make it his/her
responsibility to raise the child until at least
the age of 18. What a bunch of turds.

 let some parents here is the US adopt that child.  That is the best answer. The young girl's parents are not fit obviously since this happened under their watch. I feel so sorry for this young mother and want to hug her and tell her not all people are this awful, but, of course, in her world they are that awful.



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Momala wrote:



So who is going to be responsible for this child
once it is born - both physically and financially?

My personal feeling is that the baby should be
placed into the arms of any one of the judges
who made this decision, and make it his/her
responsibility to raise the child until at least
the age of 18. What a bunch of turds.

I do not blame the judges for this.  That girl was 7 months pregnant before they even knew about it.  Seven months is too late for an abortion even by most pro-choice standards.  

The uncle needs to be put in jail,and if he has any assets, they need to be set aside for the child.  And the 10 year old should be removed from her parents.  But, India is still a second world country - so all of that is doubtful.



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