Female genital mutilation surgery (FGM) is still being offered in the UK, despite being illegal. This thought horrifies me. Investigators from the Sunday Times report that doctors have offered to do the procedure on girls as young as ten. They also reportedly video taped a doctor, a dentist and an alternative medical practitioner offering to ...
The Northern African Islamic Republic of Mauritania has issued a fatwa, or Islamic law, banning female genital mutilation (FGM). The authors of the law used religious legal experts to support this change in law. The experts supported “their assertion that [s]uch practices were not present in the Maghreb countries over the past centuries” and removed ...
Circumcisions used to be standard for newborn boys in North America. One man thinks that it should be outlawed for causing “excruciating pain, nerve destruction, loss of normal, natural and functional tissue, infection, disfigurement and sometimes death.” Lloyd Schofield thinks it is genital mutilation. He wants San Francisco to charge parents a $1000 fine and ...
For most children summer is a time of fun and relaxation. But for girls from families where female genital mutilation (FGM) is the norm, school holidays are the time when they are most likely to get cut. Between 500 and 2,000 girls will undergo FGM this summer in the UK. This happens either by taking ...
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was just downgraded to “cutting” and is being encouraged for doctors in the USA. This is seriously distressing news and I have to wonder what they could possibly have been thinking! The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just released a policy called “Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors” which encouraged “federal ...
Female Genital Mutilation (or ‘cutting’ as is more politically correctly known) has been banned in Uganda. This practice of cutting off part or all of a girls clitoris and/or labia has been practiced for generations and it seems that Ugandans have finally admitted that “it is a disgusting act”. Not only is the procedure itself ...
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Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
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