Abortion amounts to murder: SC rejects 20-year-old's plea
Denying a 20-year-old woman the permission to abort her 25-week-old foetus, the Supreme Court on Monday said abortion amounts to murder. The woman had appealed against a Bombay High Court order which denied her the permission to abort her unborn child. She cited marital discord, a desire to initiate divorce proceedings, and to pursue her career as reasons for abortion.