Category: FGM: Female Genital Mutilation/Clitoridectomy

All three Illinois girls were about 7 years old at the time of the procedures ….. the doctors are using a religious defense. “Freedom of religion” – freedom to mutilate, murder, hate …. Genital mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’

“Medical.” There is nothing medical about clitordectomies. It is an affront to the Hippocratic Oath, first do no harm.

Female genital mutilation has been a crime since 1985 in the United Kingdom, but in over three decades the authorities have yet to secure a single conviction and mounted only a tiny number of unsuccessful prosecutions.

More than a year after her arrest in the nation’s first female genital mutilation case, the defiant Muslima doctor continues to attack the government for pursuing the case., claiming the law that’s being used to prosecute her is unconstitutional.

Senior counsel justified vaginal mutilation before the Supreme Court in India on Tuesday and called FGM an integral aspect of Islamic religious practice.

He told Voice of America (VOA) “people in the area are content” with FGM even considering the dangers, adding it is the country’s “culture”.

“The woman who performed the operation has not been arrested, but even if she was, there is no law that would ensure she is punished for the act.”

Around 4,500 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) were recorded in England over the last year.

“The estimated increase was wholly a result of rapid growth in the number of immigrants from FGM/C-practicing countries living in the United States.”

Wales is opening its first-ever female genital mutilation (FGM) clinic to provide medical and psychological help to victims of the practice.

Following swift action from Maine House Democrats on the last day of the legislative session, there will be no Female Genital Mutilation ban in the Pine Tree State.

Female genital mutilation is a barbaric and savage practice. Yet it still goes forth with alarming frequency. Why?

When it comes to prosecuting cases of female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom, the score card reads zero prosecutions — and that’s for the past 33 years.

Want to know how the United Kingdom sees so many cases of female genital mutilation, despite the savagery of the procedure? It’s done under cover of performing “intimate” body piercings.

The ruling made a certain type of FGM/C “mandatory” for every girl in Somaliland.

The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland just sent out a legal opinion that defends female genital mutilation and likens it to male circumcision.

A father in the United Kingdom told the court he subjected his daughter to female genital mutilation in order to keep her from “feeling sexy,” according to various reports. So where are all the feminists on this?

The threat of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis area in the suburbs of Paris could affect as many as 30 per cent of the children in the area, according to a French sociologist.

The Muslim leader Ali Salem justifies his vicious misogyny this way. “female genital mutilation but I am an advocate of female circumcision.” This is a distinction without difference.

Half a million women and girls in the United States have either been subjected to the horrific procedure known as female genital mutilation — or they face a risk of having it performed.