What are the legal issues in pregnancy?
- Pregnancy is the condition
resulting from the fertilized ovum.
- The existence of the condition
beginning at the time of conception and terminating with the delivery of
the child.
- Extra uterine or ectopic pregnancy
is the development of the ovum outside the uterine cavity as in the
fallopian tube or the ovaries.
- Extra uterine pregnancy usually
terminates with the rupture of the sac, profuse internal bleeding, and
death if not relieved promptly by a surgical operation.
- Pregnancy is most likely to occur
between the age group of 14 to 45 years but has been reported much earlier
and later.
- A plea of pregnancy is a plea
which a woman capitally convicted may plead in stay of execution; for
this, though it is no stay of judgment, yet operates as a respite of
execution until the child is delivered.
- This position is statutorily
recognized by Section 416 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 which
says that if a woman sentenced to death is found pregnant, the High Court
shall order the execution of the sentence to be postponed, and commute the
sentence to imprisonment of life.
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