Emilia

She was pregnant
                                   She named her daughter Emilia
                                          She was quarantined

                                              Daughterfreed  



             * Based on true stories of abortions of female fetuses in India.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Hunjeri Avatar
February 16, 2015 at 11:17 AM
So sad. I prayer for the day this kind of cruelity to women and the unborn, will end.
Chakrabarty Avatar
February 16, 2015 at 11:26 AM
Njeri good peoples are working/NGOs. Our present Government is very strong. They are taking definitive steps to end this menace. Its a social problem specially in western part of India. In some places men women ratio is 10:6. Just imagine.
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