SC took pause on judgement regarding the woman's request to end her over 26-week pregnancy.

The Supreme Court delayed making a decision on a woman's appeal on Monday, asking for a directive to the AIIMS to terminate her over-26-week pregnancy.

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A recent assessment from the AIIMS medical board, which also highlighted that the petitioner's medicine wasn't having a harmful affect on the foetus, has confirmed the petitioner's post-partum psychosis.

On Friday, the Supreme Court asked the medical board to submit a report on the condition of the married woman's foetus.

The foetus is normal, according to the earlier report supplied by AIIMS, but in order to put the situation beyond doubt, the three-judge panel, presided over by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, requested that a new report be submitted on that specific aspect.

The bench, which also included Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, was listening to arguments about the Centre's request to have the Supreme Court's October 9 order allowing a 27-year-old mother of two to undergo pregnancy termination at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences recalled.

Earlier this month, the woman went in court and claimed that she was unaware of her third pregnancy due to postpartum depression, severe financial circumstances, and lactational amenorrhea, a condition that prevents a patient from menstruating.

According to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, married women, special groups including victims of rape, and other vulnerable women like the differently-abled and minors are all allowed to terminate their pregnancies up to 24 weeks.

Colin Gonsalves, a prominent advocate, claimed on Monday that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had deemed the 24-week guideline "obsolete."

I don't think our legislation implies we might modify our law based on a WHO pronouncement, the Chief Justice of India stated.

The Chief Justice stated that the challenge to the law governing abortion would be handled in a separate proceeding and that the current case should only involve the petitioner and the state.

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