(iii) Sex Determination Test

(iii) Sex Determination Test
According to Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 abortion is legal in India. Again the Government of Maharashtra has gone far ahead by passing the Maharashtra Regulation of use of Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1988. This law has made prenatal sex determination test illegal in Maharashtra. Government of India passed the Pre natal Diagnostic Techniques (regulation and prevention of misuse) Act in 1994.
It was proposed to prohibit pre-natal diagnostic techniques for the determination of sex of foetus, leading to foetal infanticide. This Act was again amended in 2001. The government of Tamil Nadu passed a similar law in 1996.
(iv) Indecent Representation of Women
Indecent representation of women in the media has been a crucial issue in India. The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 has been passed by the Parliament. This law seeks to ban the “depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent or derogatory to, or denigrating women or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals”