Emotional Reunion: Midwife Meets Woman She Saved from Infanticide in Heartrending Return to Her Birthplace
Katihar, India — Emotions surged as Siro Devi, a midwife in this small Indian town, embraced Monica Thatte tearfully during a poignant reunion. Monica, now in her late 20s, was one of the infants Siro helped save in the 1990s from an almost certain death, a grim custom that pressured local midwives into taking the lives of newborn girls. Traditionally, rural Indian midwives were coerced by families to commit these horrific acts to avoid the …