Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques(Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act.1994, is a constitutional guarantee that checks on:

Female foeticide: The practice of selective elimination of the female fetus after prenatal sex determination or sex pre-selection is called ​Female foeticide.

• The role of women in society cannot be undermined by men in any form.
• But despite this in a country where women are put on a pedestal and worshipped as Mother Goddess, it is ironic that crimes against women are on the rise.
• One of such crimes is the crime of female foeticide (Practice of selective elimination of the female fetus after prenatal sex determination or sex pre-selection) which is increasing more speedily as compared to female infanticide (deliberate killing of girl babies).

Important Points

Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques(Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act.1994

• An Act to provide for the prohibition of sex selection, before or after conception, and for regulation of prenatal diagnostic techniques to detect genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex-linked disorders and for the prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide; and, for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. 
• This Act may be called the Pre-conception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994.
• It shall extend to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Additional Information

Some of the causes behind female foeticide may be as follows:

• Inequality or Gender Bias
• Dowry Tradition
• Male as the Bread Winner of Family
• The offering of Pinda
• Continuity of Lineage
• Old Age Security
• Two Child or One Child Norm
• Easily available means of Sex Determination. 

Hence, we can conclude that the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques(Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act.1994, is a constitutional guarantee that checks on Female foeticide.