This is from the just when you heard everything news center:

Hospital workers in Britain were left stunned after a couple reportedly abandoned IVF twin girls immediately after giving birth because they weren't boys.  The couple of Indian heritage but who live as British citizens in the city of Birmingham told medical staff directly after the Caesarean section delivery they weren't going to accept the girls as they were the "wrong sex", UK tabloid The Sun reported.

The couple had undergone IVF treatment in India because with the mother aged 59 and the father a  72-year-old they  were deemed too old to undergo the procedure in Britain.

Female babies are often abandoned and sometimes left for dead or killed in India by traditional families who only value male offspring.

I am sure that you are as disjointed as I about this turn of events.  My normal experience is to see Intended Parents estatic to have children regardless of gender or physical health.  Here we have a medical series of events initiated and then rejected by the Couple merely because of gender.  

We must remember that the UK medical system is available to all persons and that the out of pocket cost is minimal.  In light of these facts, it smacks of a present ability to abuse resources.  Thus, there is an obvious problem with the medical system to properly screen prospective Intended Parents. 

We hear that the government is investigating?  Big deal.  Placing the Intended Parents names on the birth certificate requires a best interest of the child standard.  Would it ever be in the best interest of the girls to be forced into the arms of Parents who view them as defective?