Pro Choice vs Sex Selection in the UK

Via Vox:

Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the UK under Government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation. Health Minister Caroline Flint told MPs she was minded to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby.

Allowing parents to pick sex for reasons such as "balancing" the make-up of their family could be the start of a "slippery slope" to designer babies, she warned.

Wow, could you really be more rationally inconsistent? A commentor sums it up nicely:

You can hear the conversation now:
Woman - I really want a boy, Dr. Can you tell me the sex and then if it's a girl abort it.
Dr - Sorry ma'am, I'm not allowed to do that by law.
Woman - So you can abort it for no reason but not for a reason?
Dr - That's right - It's all part of being a Dr.....and being British.
Woman - Oh, ok, well just abort it then. Wouldn't want to take a chance, now would I?
Dr - Jolly good and all that sort of rot!