Mumbai: The Bombay High Court refused to permit medical termination of a 26-week pregnancy of a woman (32) with an autoimmune blood disorder in the absence of a medical board’s specific finding that continuation of pregnancy due to it would endanger her life or that the foetus suffers from a life-threatening abnormality.A bench led by Justice Bharati Dangre on Oct 19, dismissed the petition by the woman, who was above the 24-week permissible limit under MTP Act. She sought MTP based on a sonography report that indicated some foetal abnormality.Following HC direction, Thane Civil Hospital’s medical board examined her. It stated that as on Oct 17, her pregnancy was 26 weeks and 5 days. The foetus has a smaller nasal bone but no gross anomaly. There is an abnormally low volume of amniotic fluid surrounding the foetus. Also, the petitioner is a case of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a condition affecting blood platelets. HC noted that except for an additional opinion that the pregnancy is high-risk, the gynaecology dept had not expressed that ITP “per se would pose danger to her life.”
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