Posted on 08/07/2017 5:28:08 AM PDT by Ennis85
A 10-year-old girl who is pregnant and has been refused an abortion is at the centre of a media storm in India. The BBC's Geeta Pandey travelled to the northern city of Chandigarh to piece together her story.
"We have seen lots of cases of teenage pregnancies involving 14 to 15-year-olds, but this is the first ever case that I have seen of a 10-year-old," said Mahavir Singh, of the Chandigarh State Legal Services Authority.
Mr Singh has been involved in a case which has shocked Chandigarh and the rest of India, that of a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant after allegedly being repeatedly raped by a relative.
That relative is now in jail, pending trial. The girl in question has been described as a happy child who smiles easily. She's shy and not very talkative. English and mathematics are the favourite subjects of this class six student. She loves to draw and is pretty good at it. She can't get enough of her favourite cartoon shows Chhoti Anandi (Little Anandi) and Shin Chan. She loves chicken and fish - and ice-cream.
But on 28 July, India's Supreme Court rejected a petition - filed on her behalf - to allow her to abort, on the grounds that at 32 weeks, she is too far into her pregnancy. A doctors' panel had advised the court that a termination at this stage would be "too risky" for the girl, and that the foetus was "doing well". The court order was a huge disappointment for the girl's family.
Indian law does not allow terminations after 20 weeks unless doctors certify that the mother's life is in danger. But in recent years, the courts have received several petitions, many from child rape survivors, seeking to terminate pregnancies after 20 weeks.
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20 weeks in court? Was someone from Waco scheduling the dates?
This story is really weird. The girl was menstruating at age 10? Secondly, at 20 weeks she was not showing?
OK, India, then Abort the male, rapist, relative.
Ok,
I was shocked when my niece started last year. She was nine at the time. I will say that she has been taking some hormones for breathing troubles ever since she was very young. Not sure if that did it or not.
Was the disgusting perv a muslim or a member of the LGBTQPTklm alliance?
Chandigarh is 80% Hindu, 5% Muslim. I don’t care what beliefs the evil predator who raped this little girl claims to have; he needs a shortcut to the afterlife.
Not far fetched to think that the hormones triggered her “killer genes.”
Why not kill the perv who raped her, rather than the baby?
This is the case abortionists were waiting for it will be used to upend India’s abortion laws. It’s the strategy the left uses with great success, take an extreme case to set prcedent, destroy the culture. Or at the other end they will use the most benign example to slip something through. It is why they started with a High School girl who wanted to use the boys John. If they start with some dude who wanted to use the girls shower at a Jr. High it would get stopped right there.
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