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Courts allow medical termination of pregnancy up to 20 weeks under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act and can make an exception if the foetus is genetically abnormal. The treatment expenses of the rape victim are being borne by the Chandigarh Administration. Chandigarh, August 17The 10-year-old rape victim, whose abortion plea was turned down by the Supreme Court, on Thursday delivered a baby through C-section at one of the government hospitals here, a senior doctor said. The PIL was filed after a Chandigarh district court on July 18 refused to let the girl undergo the abortion. As far as the girl is concerned, she is stable and will be kept in a separate room,” Dr Dasari Harish, chairperson of the committee which had been constituted for treatment of the rape victim, said..