The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned whether a woman with intellectual disability has the right to become a mother, while hearing a plea filed by the father of a 27-year-old unmarried woman, seeking the medical termination of her 21-week pregnancy, news agency PTI reported. The petitioner submitted that his daughter wanted to continue the pregnancy, but she was of unsound mind.

A division bench of Justices RV Ghuge and Rajesh Patil had last week directed that the woman be examined by a medical board at the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai.