And it is quite simply extraordinary that an amendment which claims its aim is to protect women seeks to shift the burden of responsibility for this not onto a culture that prizes boys over girls, but onto pregnant women themselves.
In a country where parents in some areas still prize boys over girls; where overall female literacy rates are poor; and Sania Mirza, a top tennis player, said this month that she would quit playing after marriage, the banking industry's wealth of women in management may seem surprising.
Several companies do not sell tests in China or India, where boys are prized over girls and fetuses found to be female have been aborted.
After the $5 million deal, made with North Korean officials in hotel lobbies in Kuala Lumpur and Kathmandu, Mick and his colleagues were prized customers: "bright eyed boys", as he puts it.
After the $5 million deal, made with North Korean officials in hotel lobbies in Kuala Lumpur and Kathmandu, Ranger and his colleagues were prized customers: "bright-eyed boys," as he puts it.
Boy children are prized, especially in the countryside where they provide labour and care for parents in old age.
Tokyo's Haneda Airport wouldn't win any architectural prizes but boy, does it work.
"That is Canary Wharf," he told the BBC cameras when he won the 2003 Mercury prize for Boy in da Corner.
It takes the piss," he said after winning the 2003 Mercury prize for Boy in Da Corner, his debut grime album as Dizzee Rascal.
We need to create alternatives to an adolescent culture that prizes a boy's prowess at sports over his artistic, academic, "nerdy" accomplishments so that the oddballs can find a social niche more easily.
