Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India.
Department of Community Medicine, Employees State Insurance Corporation Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bangalore, India.
Sci Eng Ethics. 2018 Apr;24(2):769-771. doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-9926-y. Epub 2017 Jun 12.
Abortion continues to be a moral and ethical dilemma in medicine. While abortions in general have always faced social stigmas, the abortion of fetuses with Down's syndrome in particular remains the subject of debate across the globe. In India, under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, abortion is legal under prescribed circumstances only till 20 weeks of gestation. Laws for abortion after 20 week of gestation are ill defined. In a recent ruling of the Supreme Court in India, a woman was denied the right to abortion of her 26 week old fetus. With this ruling, India has joined the rest of the world in the debate surrounding abortion laws and the ethics of abortion.
人工流产在医学领域一直是一个道德和伦理上的难题。虽然一般来说，人工流产一直面临着社会污名，但唐氏综合征胎儿的人工流产尤其在全球范围内仍是一个争议的话题。在印度，根据《终止妊娠医疗办法》，只有在规定的情况下，怀孕 20 周前才允许进行人工流产。怀孕 20 周后进行人工流产的法律规定并不明确。最近，印度最高法院的一项裁决剥夺了一名妇女对其 26 周大胎儿进行人工流产的权利。通过这一裁决，印度加入了全球范围内围绕堕胎法和堕胎伦理的辩论。
