“The authors of the article said they don’t believe the term “female genital mutilation” is the appropriate name for the minimal surgical “nick” they said should be legalized in the West, comparing the procedure to braces.
The minimalist genital procedures “are equivalent or less extensive than orthodontia, breast implantation or even the elective labiaplasty for which affluent women pay thousands of dollars. Furthermore, a nick that heals completely is not mutilation in that there is no morphological alteration,” they wrote.
The doctors noted that the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all classify female genital mutilation as a human rights violation and that the practice is outlawed in the U.S.
“We are not arguing that any procedure on the female genitalia is desirable,” the doctors explained and pointed out that in arguing in favor of allowing families to conduct a limited symbolic procedure they don’t condone the oppression of women.
Additionally, they said they were not sure believers in genital mutilation would even accept any compromised smaller procedure, “rather, we only argue that certain procedures ought to be tolerated by liberal societies.”
Do any women want ‘nicking’ done to them?
This is just another step towards accepting sharia law
Unbelievable. It is a horrific and evil mutilation. No one can be that ignorant so they are purposely deceiving in order to defend Islam.