Female genital mutilation is a real problem. While it is sometimes called 'circumcision' , part or all of the clitoris is removed, not a piece of skin. Many of the subjects are underage and do not give what most people would consider informed consent.
Apparently, piercings somehow got mixed into the situation. I have no problem with piercings, although some body piercings, IMO, should be performed by a surgeon if there is a chance of severe bleeding, if there will be drilling through bone, etc.
IMO, if a 20-year-old woman wants an 'earring' on her labia, that's her business. Having a 13-year-old girl dragged in by her relatives to have her clitoris hacked off is something entirely different.
Female genital mutilation
__________________
Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. --
Barack Hussein Obama
03-25-2004, 09:06 PM
Hybrid Mode
