In the BBC documentary The Midwife’s Confession, women who were trusted to bring life into the world reveal how they were asked—sometimes ordered—to end it instead. Newborn girls, moments old, were smothered, strangled, or simply “disappeared.” Not out of hatred, but because society told their families that daughters were burdens. In India, the weight of dowry still haunts millions of homes. To escape the supposed shame and cost of raising a girl, families resort to unthinkable acts—k*lling thei

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