In Punjab and many places worldwide, feticide is all too common because of the expense girls bring, especially to families living in poverty. Abortion is illegal so families will go to extreme measures to dispose of newborn girls, often against the child's mother's wishes. The baby girls are found by road sides, left by rivers, or dropped directly to Unique Home, a home for girls, in Jalandhar, Punjab. Bibi Prakash Kaur and a handful of other women, many of whom were left as babies themselves, house 60+ abandoned girls.
Faces not shown to protect the identities of these women and children
In Punjab and many places worldwide, feticide is all too common because of the expense girls bring, especially to families living in poverty. Abortion is illegal so families will go to extreme measures to dispose of newborn girls, often against the child's mother's wishes. The baby girls are found by road sides, left by rivers, or dropped directly to Unique Home, a home for girls, in Jalandhar, Punjab. Bibi Prakash Kaur and a handful of other women, many of whom were left as babies themselves, house 60+ abandoned girls.
Faces not shown to protect the identities of these women and children
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Michele Abercrombie is a photo editor based in New York City.
