Hey, I know! Instead of outlawing murder, why don't we teach everyone to understand how other people feel, and to appreciate their perspective, and how bad it is to lose them. What a completely retarded article. How are you supposed to "raise the value of girls" without completely going after the entire set of cultural mores? No economic or social policy can do this - there is currently a surfiet of other available workers, and men are almost universally more desirable employees. There is a reason why in free markets, they make $1.00 for every $.65 a woman earns. This, of course, is nothing knew to pro-lifers. They have been thoroughly aware of this scenario, and have been complaining about it for decades.
This is completely absurd. There are only two acceptable positions on the abortion debate, and they center around your acceptance of a fetus as a human life. If it is, there is absolutely no justification for a deliberately induced abortion, ever. If it is not a human life, then these complaints are ridiculous. Chinese women have every bit as much right to not waste time and resources on a relatively useless product of their bodies, as Western women do to not waste their youth or career-advancing years on a similarly unwanted pregnancy. Because one aborts for reasons of personal suitability and another does it because of cultural gender issues does not alter the underlying principle.