Do the "choice" advocates support the choice made by Chinese parents?

Observer/Guardian:

China is planning to tighten punishments for sex-selective abortions amid concerns that its widening gender imbalance will lead to wife trafficking, sexual crimes and social frustration.

Shocking new figures released by the state media show that the worst affected city, Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, has a ratio of 165 boys to 100 girls among children aged one to four.

Nationwide, six males are born for every five females, far above the international average. With the gap growing every year as a result of increased access to ultrasound sex-checking technology, one senior official warned that China faces the 'most serious gender imbalance in the world'.

There has been alarm for more than a decade, but it has reached a new pitch in recent months as state demographers forecast that 37 million men will be unable to find wives by 2020. Already there are 18 million more men than women of marriageable age. In a recent survey by the China Youth Daily, 85 per cent of respondents were worried about the implications of the gender gap.

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I suspect that most of those in the choice movement never thought about sex selection effecting the choice, and if they did they were probably arrogant enough to assume that that choice would be female. In India they are still finding the bodies of female babies who have been killed. It is enough to make you think the culture of life is a better way to make sure little girls survive.

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