This change in the new MTP Bill will allow the parents to terminate the pregnancy at any age once the abnormality is detected if they want to rather forcing the couple to give birth and seeing the child die at full term with pain.

The court took the decision after doctors advised that cosmetic surgery could easily treat the foetus’ deformities – cleft lip and palate.

The bill allows for abortion even beyond a period of 24 weeks for foetuses that are “abnormal” that is the children that could be born with disabilities.

The Supreme Court allowed a woman from Mumbai to terminate one of her twin fetuses. One of her two foetuses is said to have Down Syndrome.

The provision of the previous act imposed a severe restriction on the exercise of the reproductive choice of the woman.