An overview on Pre-natal Diagnostic techniques Act and it's Implementation

The main idea for writing this paper “„An overview on Pre-natal diagnostic techniques Act and its implementation” is to examine pre-natal diagnostic techniques Act and to evaluate its use and misuse in the society. The Act is enacted to prohibit sex selection before and after conception and for the regulation of prenatal diagnostic techniques for the purpose of detecting any kind of abnormalities or malformations. There has been increase in the number of female feticides in India and these new techniques are responsible for sex selective abortions. The government is unable to tackle the problem of sex selective abortions and it is basically because there is no proper implementation of the Act. The poor status of women in the society is actually the root cause of the problem. It is the main concern that law is already enacted since from 1994 to address the problem but still there is prevalence of sex selective abortion or female feticide. However, it is remarkable to note that female feotus is eliminating just because they are female. In Indian society discrimination towards female child still exists due to various socio-cultural reasons.