Because it's appalling that women are so undervalued? I'm appalled by the treatment of women, not that women are able to abort pregnancies they don't want to continue. Two very different issues. I'm not going to force women to have children they don't want (and perhaps can't afford, in the case of Indian women and dowries) in the interest of trying to make more women. The idea is to empower women through education and financial opportunity and to try and defeat the cultural preference for males, not use women as incubators for more women just because there's a cultural preference for males. Is that what you're suggesting? That women be made to have female children against their will (because of cultural influences) simply to correct a sex imbalance? That's not going to fix the devaluation of women in the slightest. If anything, it only further devalues them. They're not broodmares, they're women making a rational choice given the options available. Improve the options.