The couple got to know about the condition when the mother was 24 weeks into the pregnancy. Representational pic

'We have to see our child die in front of our eyes, do you know how traumatic that is," asks Ajit Mehra (name changed), father of a child who was born on July 1, with a rare condition that has deformed his brain and spine. The Supreme Court on March 27 disallowed Mehra's 28-year-old wife to abort the foetus at 27 weeks, claiming that the child could be born alive during abortion.