They came to expose a baby farm. They uncovered a global industry feasting on the unborn. They harvest the unborn to smooth the wrinkles of the rich. What begins as an undercover investigation into Nigeria's illicit baby trade draws investigative journalist Julia A. Silvercrest and her fiancé, Count Gábor Andrássy, into a realm that is not chaotic but coldly calculated. From trafficked newborns and coerced teenage mothers to clinics that would make Dr Mengele applaud from the grave, they uncover a billion-dollar industry sustained by stolen lives and elite vanity. Their search takes them to the notorious Hospital No. 6 in Kharkiv, where the dead don't scream, and the living look away. Behind its war-torn walls, doctors harvest foetal tissue and organs for luxury stem cell therapies-bespoke elixirs designed for the elite and administered in spotless clinics across the globe. Politicians are informed. Bureaucrats delay action. Supranational agencies maintain silence. The trade in youth and vitality flourishes-sanitised, profitable, and steeped in blood. There is no ignorance here. The powerful know, and they choose to look away. Their complicity is not passive; it is deliberate. As Julia and Gábor locate the only doctor willing to speak, they teeter on the edge of sparking a political firestorm. However, powerful actors move quickly to contain the fallout, brokering sweetheart deals, silencing dissent, and pressuring a complacent press to bury the story. The real conflict isn't about uncovering the truth but about who has the right to tell it-and who can silence it. Ruthless, visceral, and morally unflinching, Babymines exposes the modern cult of youth, asking: how many unborn lives must be sacrificed so that the world's most pampered can delay ageing and silence the whisper of their conscience?
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