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female circumcision

Do you think female circumcision will always be with us?

Most of the women are treated for conditions related to female circumcision.

Q. When did you first become aware of female circumcision?

She plans to use some of the money to help educate people in Africa to stop female circumcision.

Most of these women who came to me, obviously, had undergone female circumcision.

In traditional society, too, the painful practice of female circumcision was widespread.

If the sight of this girl under female circumcision is so difficult to bear, how can she possibly stand the pain?

All types of female circumcision have huge psychological and physical dangers.

Female circumcision is just beginning to get attention in Africa, and about 13 countries now punish the practice with jail terms.

Today we in the West would do the same with "modern equivalents" like female circumcision.