India, Jan. 29 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to let a young rape survivor to medically terminate her 28-weeks pregnancy, and held that the termination at this advanced stage would amount to foeticide.

A division bench of justice Ravindra Ghuge and justice Abhay Mantri relied on the opinion of a medical board stating that the foetus was without any congenital abnormality or anomaly and there was a high chance of a live child being born if the pregnancy was terminated at the advanced stage of 28-weeks.

The medical board added that the child would need a lot of medical treatment and support, if allowed to be born 12 weeks before the pregnancy would naturally end. "The other option is to perform foeticide," the bench said, add...