The falling sex ratio in India has been a matter of concern, which is why the government of India passed the PCPNDT Act, with the hope that this would help to increase the number of girls. The intention was that the Act would stop people from resorting to sex selective abortions.Sadly, the act has had previous little impact. It has become a very punitive act, which focuses on punishing doctors who are allegedly performing sex selective abortions.
9 times out of 10, the doctors who've been hauled to court for flouting the act is not because they have been caught performing sex selective abortions, but because they have committed clerical errors in filling in the infamous Form F. The Act is obsessed with regulating the misuse of ultrasound scanning, and just ends up criminalizing doctors whose records are not picture perfect, even though they may not be performing any sex selection. This…
