Embracing Female Genital Mutilation

Front Page ^ | May 10th, 2010 | Jenn Q. Public

[Scanian]

There is no limit to the depravity of the cultists who worship at the altar of multiculturalism.

100 to 140 million girls and women around the world have been subjected to genital mutilation. And now, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is embracing this barbaric expression of misogyny in the name of cultural sensitivity and immigrant outreach.

Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation (FGM) and advocates for “federal and state laws [to] enable pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a ‘ritual nick’,” such as pricking or minor incisions of girls’ clitorises.

Surely pediatricians sworn to do no harm wouldn’t advocate a medically unnecessary practice rooted firmly in hatred of women. Equality Now must have misread the AAP’s statement on FGM, right?

Wrong. According to the AAP:

[barb-tex]

True, ir would be difficult to find a sample to poll. So we will never know how the big C effects sexual pleasure.
barbra ann

[GraceG]

Wow and active thread,

I will just say I am all for medical technology that will reverse any sort of mutilation carried out by the parents on any children.

And leave it at that.