FGM

Date Submitted: 12/15/2004 04:52:41
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 10 pages (2802 words)
As you are reading this article, there are between eight and ten million women and girls in the Middle East and in Africa who are at risk of undergoing one form or another of genital mutilation. In the United States it is estimated that about ten thousand girls are at risk of this practice. Awa Thiam, the Senegalese writer and activist, notes that FGM in a variety of its forms is practiced in Middle Eastern …
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…can do for you is to tell you to grow up. Your Mommies are busy, our plates are full. Director, RDA "In a free society, all individuals have a right to make informed decisions regarding their bodies. If a parent indoctrinates a child into a religion, that child can refuse that religion upon reaching majority age. However, body parts removed from a child cannot be regrown as an adult. Genital mutilation is permanent." --J.N.
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