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"Circumcision" or "Mutilation"? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, abuse, children, FGM, FGM/C, risks, circuncision, africamiddle-east, asia, australia )

Madalena
- 719 days ago - tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com
I'm not sure it's possible to find anyone dispassionate on this subject. The experts, like Lab readers, can't even even agree on what to call this procedure. (In my post I used several of the terms: circumcision, female genital mutilation, female genital
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Jim Phillips (2588)
Sunday December 23, 2007, 3:32 pm
It is not "Circumcision". It is "Mutilation". A disgusting practice. There is no need for this barbaric procedure.
 
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