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I'll probably draw all kinds of fire here, but I don't think the decision to abort a pregnancy where the fetus was female is necessarily immoral. A culture in which girls are devalued *is* immoral...and it's possible that a woman who decided to terminate such a pregnancy may actually be acting for what she feels are moral reasons...that life for a girl would be such a living hell that she cannnot bear to bring a daughter into the world.
There is no easy solution to this problem, which requires widespread social change to repair rather than draconian anti-abortion laws, but to condemn women for terminating the pregnancy rather than bring a child into the world who would be seen by her family (particularly her male relatives) as a burden and by her in-laws as an inconvenient but necessary breeding machine doesn't seem right.
