Dr Ashok Chauhan told the BBC the termination will be completed “anytime now”.
The girl became pregnant about five months ago.
Indian law doesn’t permit terminations after 20 weeks unless physicians confirm the woman’s life is at risk.
The decision to permit the child to abort was taken after a local court told physicians at the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) from the town of Rohtak that it might take their recommendation.
India is home to the greatest number of sexually abused children worldwide. But there is a general reluctance to discuss the issue and it is seldom discussed in public.
Contrary to the popular belief that only women are abused, boys are equally at risk; and kids from wealthy families are just as much at risk as people from poor backgrounds.
Campaigners say sexual abuse of kids goes unchecked because the victims are often reluctant to report it to their parents or teachers, and also because parents themselves often hush it up, fearing family dishonor.
The effort aims to affect five million kids across 200 districts and calls on every Indian citizen to work to break the silence that surrounds child abuse.
Campaigners say India’s civilization at present stands on the face of the offender, and that has to change.
The tough law against abortion was introduced to combat India’s skewed gender ratio. A deep-seated cultural preference for sons has resulted in millions of female fetuses being aborted through the past few years by pregnant women after undergoing fetal sex testing.
Recently India’s Supreme Court has received many petitions, some from girls who were raped, wanting to terminate pregnancies after 20 weeks. The court has ever referred the issue to medical experts.
A child under 16 is raped every 155 minutes, a child under 10 each 13 hours
More than 10,000 children were raped in 2015
240 million women living in India were married until they turned 18
53.22 percent of children who engaged at a government study reported some form of sexual abuse
50 percent of abusers are known to the child or are “men in trust and care-givers”
In the most recent case in Rohtak city in Haryana, physicians from the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) accepted the family’s request to enable the child to have an abortion after talking the matter on Monday.
The maternity came to light last week once the 10-year-old’s mother, who works as a domestic helper, guessed her kid was pregnant and took her to see a physician.
Reports said the woman was often left at home when her mother went to work. She told her mom that she was repeatedly raped by her stepfather, who had cautioned her not to say anything.
Dr Chauhan had said on Monday the situation for the conclusion was “borderline”.
“She’s around 20 weeks pregnant, but it might be 19 months or it might be 21 weeks. The technology isn’t so advanced that it can tell you exactly what week she is in.”
Benji_and_Beaners on October 4th, 2017 at 13:46 UTC »
I'm all for acknowledging that this is a good decision, but is any one else a little depressed that something like this is news worthy. I guess I wish I lived in a world where a little girl can get the help she needs without it being a headline.
tyrael98 on October 4th, 2017 at 13:29 UTC »
Its terrible that they would have to plea for it in the first place let alone experience a rape, its terrible
Mr_Luchi on October 4th, 2017 at 13:16 UTC »
The first sentence started with "The woman..."