Not the Onion:US Study proposes 'nicking' genitals instead of Female Genital Mutilation
FGM IN THE U.S.
A controversial new study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics says “nicking” the genitals of young girls is an acceptable compromise for the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the West.
Arguing that criminalizing FGM in Western countries such as the U.S. and U.K. has pushed the practice underground, the authors suggest a “compromise solution” that would legally permit a minimal form of genital mutilation “in recognition of its cultural and religious obligations.” Despite being perceived as a practice linked to Islam, FGM is a cultural practice that has no basis in religion. No religious texts prescribe FGM, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while Human Rights Watch says the practice is “erroneously linked” to religion and “is not particular to any religious faith.”
In the study, published on Monday, U.S.-based authors Dr. Kavita Shah Arora, director of quality, obstetrics and gynecology at the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland and Dr. Allan Jacobs, professor of reproductive medicine at Stony Brook University, write that “in order to better protect female children from the serious and long-term harms of some types of non-therapeutic [FGM], we must adopt a more nuanced position that acknowledges a wide spectrum of procedures that alter female genitalia.”
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Are these people on psychedelics? DOCTORS are proposing this? 
And, um, yes it IS linked to a particular religulous delusion.
This kind of shit makes me so angry.
...any way to track the...propensity of any particular group supporting this. How unfortunate. Very sad, but I suppose nothing can be done about it. **Big Shrug Emoji**
Since the WHO and the other 'world groups' can't seem to figure out where it comes from, we can't just drive the illegality underground. I mean, we learned how terrible that was with abortion. Only thing to do is find a way to make it legal, natch!
((It truly is sad how it's impossible to even figure out who's likely to do this. I mean, I keep coming up with all the times Obadiah Smith and his neighbor Nehemiah Jones did this to their children, and it's just staggering!. (Do I really need the tag? 
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"Nicking" something is still cutting something and is still FGM. what a bunch of assholes!
I mean, except the sorts of cultural values that let cartoonists draw "blasphemous" cartoons, or let women decide to wear a sexy bathing suit on the cover of a magazine, those deserve universal condemnation of course.
But we must be respectful of these cultural values here, you know.
fuck these "doctors" and their compromise
