China’s Gender Gap Up to 32 million

The New York Times and others covered a new study regarding China’s longstanding one-child policy that many of us know has resulted in a preference for male children over females; women have not only had to give up their female children to orphanages, but are enduring forced abortions and sterilizations.
According to the new findings, there is now a gap of 32 million more males than females under the age of 20 in China.
The researchers suggested that enforcing a ban on sex-selective abortions would solve this problem, attributing the gap to just that. As some have misinterpreted sex-selective abortions as “family planning got awry” in the past (for example, the Bush administration used it as a reason to defund the United Nations Populations Fund), let’s reiterate that this is not family planning by any means. After all, coerced abortion and forced sterilizations doesn’t involve much of a “choice,” does it?
But would enforcing a ban on sex-selective abortions allow lines to be muddied regarding the right to choose? (Not to mention many girls would still be orphaned.) So is repealing the one-child policy the answer?