The midwives who stopped murdering girls and started saving them | BBC News

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Warning: includes content some viewers may find distressing . Almost thirty years ago, a journalist in India’s northern state of Bihar interviewed a group of village midwives who told a shocking story. Speaking on camera, these women admitted that they routinely murdered new-born baby girls on the orders of the girls’ families. These shocking confessions — unseen until now — are the starting point for a documentary that explores the disturbing history of infanticide in rural India. But the film does not end with the killings. This is also a story about a remarkable campaign to save baby girls from being murdered at birth — a campaign that relied upon the very midwives who had carried out the killings. The BBC Eye documentary "The Midwife's Confession" can be watched in full here: https://youtu.be/uSuMOh_d9oc #BBCEye #India #BBCNews