The concerns of continuing female genital mutilation practices.

The article, "In Africa, FGM Checks into Hospitals," journalist Fredrick Nwzili writes about the concerns of continuing female genital mutilation practices. According to Nwzili, "now that some traditional practitioners have disavowed it, many doctors and nurses are taking up the illegal practice" (Nwzili). Apparently, some of the old traditional doctors discontinued female genital mutilation and also, another assumption for the increase in illegal practices of doctors performing the surgery, is the shift from rural to …

…loving parent would take their daughter in to be mutilated. These rural people trust the doctors, and how can any doctors ethically perform such operations? It baffles my mind. Women should be informed of what these procedures will do to them and their daughters during intercourse and during the birth of a child. Female genital mutilation is called mutilation for a reason. We do not call it female genital, now it is better than ever!