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Female genital mutilation should be legal in its mildest forms: gynecologists
2016-05-16 11:17:34 Post No. 74158772
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Female genital mutilation should be legal in its mildest forms: gynecologists
Anonymous
2016-05-16 11:17:34
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>Gynecologists Kavita Shah Arora and Allan Jacobs said procedures that slightly changed the look of a girl's genitalia without damaging them were comparable to male circumcision or cosmetic procedures in Western countries like labiaplasty.
>Laws against mild modifications were "culturally insensitive and supremacist and discriminatory towards women", they wrote in the specialist publication that is published by the British Medical Journal.
>The gynecologists suggested that global attempts to stamp out FGM with legislation had failed and may be driving the practice underground.
>"We are not arguing that any procedure on the female genitalia is desirable," they said. "Rather, we only argue that certain procedures ought to be tolerated by liberal societies."
>They said the term "female genital mutilation" should be replaced with the less emotive "female genital alteration" to avoid "demonising important cultural practices".