Precisely! Carter thinks that it's "murder" when someone kills an unborn child because it has an undesired gender (i.e., female).
When an unborn child is killed because it is "inconvenient," however - then, magically, it is no longer "murder."
He says that the aborted girls are "missing" in the sense that their absence results in an imbalance in the sex ratio, which has demographic and political implications (but not - in his view - moral implications).
Regards,
bump
You are very correct, clearly stated.
Carter and liberal sophistry at its worst.