The Orissa High Court on Monday allowed a 13-year-old rape survivor to medically terminate her over 27-week pregnancy immediately after recognising the grave risk it posed to her life and well-being.

Jaipur, The Rajasthan High Court has allowed a 13-year-old rape survivor to medically terminate her pregnancy observing if not permitted it would jeopardise her mental health.

The Rajasthan High Court has allowed a 13-year-old rape survivor to have a medical termination of her 27-week pregnancy. The court instructed that if the fetus survives, it should be incubated and ...

A 13-year-old rape survivor was on Monday allowed to medically terminate her over 27-week pregnancy immediately. The Odisha High Court in its order recognised the grave risk the pregnancy posed to ...

Justice Sudesh Bansal passed the order on March 10 following a March 8 report of a medical board, which opined the termination of over 27-week pregnancy of the survivor "under high risk consent".

A team of researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan found new insights into the timing of ...

Researchers found new insights on the timing of prenatal stress and its effect on infant stress reactivity and temperament -- including differences between genders. A team of researchers at ...

The study, published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, is the first to examine weekly stress across 27 weeks of pregnancy to pinpoint when it most affects a newborn's stress response and temperament ...

The minor, a resident of Kandhamal district, suffers from sickle cell anaemia and epilepsy, conditions that significantly increase the dangers associated with childbirth.