O, all too seriocomic. Babies were always aborted and always will be. But backward lookers as we always must be, tradition bound, today and tomorrow focused, and wildly endowed by science-based options, as a species in many populous areas we now skew a man-woman ratio terribly askew. In very few years so many men will never find wives , not in India or Xinuan == stay unmated? Exculturate? Unintended consequences will be important.