{"id":110239,"date":"2024-10-04T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110239"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T02:05:44","slug":"the-midwives-who-stopped-murdering-girls-and-started-saving-them-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110239","title":{"rendered":"The midwives who stopped murdering girls and started saving them | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeOlQjRVWdo?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Warning: includes content some viewers may find distressing .<\/p>\n<p> Almost thirty years ago, a journalist in India\u2019s northern state of Bihar interviewed a group of village midwives who told a shocking story. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on camera, these women admitted that they routinely murdered new-born baby girls on the orders of the girls\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>These shocking confessions \u2014 unseen until now \u2014 are the starting point for a documentary that explores the disturbing history of infanticide in rural India.<\/p>\n<p> 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 \u2014 a campaign that relied upon the very midwives who had carried out the killings.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC Eye documentary &#8220;The Midwife&#8217;s Confession&#8221; can be watched in full here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/uSuMOh_d9oc<\/p>\n<p>#BBCEye #India #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oeOlQjRVWdo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: includes content some viewers may find distressing . Almost thirty years ago, a journalist in India\u2019s northern state of Bihar interviewed a group of village midwives who told a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110239\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}