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A 17-year-old girl hopes to find a loving home for her baby boy who was born last week in India, allegedly conceived in rape.
The Times of India reports the young woman gave birth Friday at the Sassoon Hospital in India and made an adoption plan for him through the SoFoSH adoption agency.
Initially, the young woman and her parents petitioned the courts to have a late-term abortion after she allegedly was raped; she was 26-weeks pregnant at the time. However, the courts refused her request, saying the abortion could endanger her life, the India Times reports.
Abortions are illegal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in India. However, women increasingly have been petitioning the high court for permission to abort their late-term unborn babies because of fetal abnormalities. Some families of young rape victims also have made requests to the high court.
The girl’s parents urged her to make an adoption plan for the child so that she could return to school, according to the report. Initially, the 17-year-old said she wanted to parent the baby, but her parents convinced her to pursue adoption instead.
The pressure that the girl’s parents put on her to make an adoption plan is concerning. Adoption is a loving alternative to abortion, but it is a difficult decision that birth mothers should make of their own free will. It also raises questions about whether her parents also may have pressured her to abort the baby.
The parents allege that 23-year-old Prashant Ashok Sarwade raped and impregnated their daughter. Police arrested Sarwade but later released him on bail, according to the report.
However, Sarwade claims he and the girl were in a romantic relationship, ran away from home together and got married in August 2016.
The Times of India reports the young woman gave birth Friday at the Sassoon Hospital in India and made an adoption plan for him through the SoFoSH adoption agency.
Initially, the young woman and her parents petitioned the courts to have a late-term abortion after she allegedly was raped; she was 26-weeks pregnant at the time. However, the courts refused her request, saying the abortion could endanger her life, the India Times reports.
Abortions are illegal after 20 weeks of pregnancy in India. However, women increasingly have been petitioning the high court for permission to abort their late-term unborn babies because of fetal abnormalities. Some families of young rape victims also have made requests to the high court.
The girl’s parents urged her to make an adoption plan for the child so that she could return to school, according to the report. Initially, the 17-year-old said she wanted to parent the baby, but her parents convinced her to pursue adoption instead.
The pressure that the girl’s parents put on her to make an adoption plan is concerning. Adoption is a loving alternative to abortion, but it is a difficult decision that birth mothers should make of their own free will. It also raises questions about whether her parents also may have pressured her to abort the baby.
The parents allege that 23-year-old Prashant Ashok Sarwade raped and impregnated their daughter. Police arrested Sarwade but later released him on bail, according to the report.
However, Sarwade claims he and the girl were in a romantic relationship, ran away from home together and got married in August 2016.
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