With expanding availability of sex screening technologies in India via the 1980s in urban India, and promises of its misuse, the Government of India handed the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PNDT) in 1994. This regulation was even more amended into the Pre-Conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) (PCPNDT) Act in 2004 to prevent and punish prenatal intercourse screening and sex selective abortion.