Indian Girl, 10, Was Raped Repeatedly. Now She May Have to Give Birth.
The girl’s mother and stepfather worked as day laborers on construction sites,
and her stepfather, who was in his early 20s, would exploit her mother’s absence to rape the girl, said Dr. S. K. Dhattarwal, the head of the forensic medicine department at Rohtak’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
Rohtak said that repeatedly rap
By HARI KUMARMAY 15, 2017
NEW DELHI — A 10-year-old girl who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather,
and who is now at least 20 weeks pregnant, may be forced to give birth because of India’s restrictive abortion law.
" said Dr. Dhattarwal, who also supervised the medical examination in that case. that It was a brutal sexual assault-cum-murder,
A medical board in the northern Indian state of Haryana said on Monday
that the girl’s life had not been endangered by the pregnancy, a necessary condition under the law for most abortions conducted after 20 weeks.
In making its determination, the medical board said a court would have to determine whether the
girl’s case meets the legal threshold of "exceptional circumstances" that justify an abortion.