I suspect a good deal of this comes down to the issue of abortion. Infanticide, of course, is a separate issue, but if abortion is considered murder then I can see that it is a grave (no pun intended) matter indeed.

In my opinion, if only abortion were used to instate the results they wanted I don't really see the gravity as to method used.

Of course, I also agree that imbalancing the sexes is short sighted and just plain dumb. In other words, What were they thinking?