India
Supreme Court notice to Center on a petition against age restriction on reproductive rights of women

The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s response to a plea against the 35-year age restriction on women’s reproductive rights to conduct pre-pregnancy and prenatal diagnostic tests.
A bench of Justices SK Kaul and Abhay S Oka issued notice to the central government and others on a plea filed by a lawyer, who said that the age limit restricts women’s reproductive rights.
“She cites Section 4(3)(i) of the Pre-Conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, to argue that the age restriction of 35 years is a restriction on women’s reproductive rights. And given the recent judgment of this Court…issuance of notice is limited to the above aspect,” it said.