BRITISH women with antecedents in the Indian subcontinent have revealed how they underwent illegal abortions of female babies because of cultural pressures to have a boy.
One mother, fearful of being ostracised by her in-laws, aborted three female foetuses, while another, one of four sisters, had a termination because she could not face the “curse” of having a baby girl.
A third, who had already given birth to a daughter, was repeatedly punched in the stomach by her husband after he discovered that her unborn child was female.
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