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<\/span>Female Feticide and the PCPNDT Act<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Female feticide has been a highly emotive issue in India. Emanating from female infanticide, practiced by certain communities in the country, because of the social milieu of perceiving a female child as financial and social burden among Hindus, it was virtually projected as a universal practice in the country. With the advent of technologies to identify sex of the child in the womb, especially by sonography, and medical termination of pregnancy (legalization of abortion), the issue was integrated as \u2018sex selected feticide.\u2019 Decreasing female sex ratio in population, especially in 0-6yrs age group, was projected to be due to pre-birth  intentional female fetal elimination, or female fetal loss. The PCPNDT Act (Pre-Conception and  Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994, amended 2003, were enacted.<\/p>

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