Abortion-the correct age

After what happend somedays back, certainly the awareness of public about abortions has increased.there is a view that that the legal age of abortion should be increased to 24 weeks as is the case in britain as their is hardly any signifant increase in risk to the health of pregnant mother whether is done at 20 weeks or 24 weeks.....whereas some feel that the current age is corrrect.

amidst all these we all tend to forget that in medicine u cannt be so dogmatic and strict in your approach.....every disease and its treatment has to b individualised as there nothing which is absolute in medical science....so i believe that we should be more flexible in our approach. Every case is unique one and one cannt apply the same basis for all of them.

what i feel is that the correct age of abortion should be left to the treating doctor.....as he is the best person who knows exactly the condition of the mother and the fetus....and whether the abortion is going to have any harm on the health of the mother.
but then it would require a practise of huge amount of responsibility and ethics on the part of the doctors moreover in country like India where the regulatory bodies are so poor functioning that it would b very difficult to keep track of abortions and the in a country where parents r so son loving that abortion for other reasons would also increase

so in a society like india where corruption is so rampant, medical ethics has reached rock bottom and where parents would do any thing to have a male child....the current legal age is correct