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  • Minnesota considers anti-female genital mutilation measure

    05/03/2017 2:40:25 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 25 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2017 5:27 PM EDT | Kyle Potter
    Minnesota lawmakers sat in stunned silence Wednesday as a Somali-American woman described how she was grabbed while sleeping by her mother and relatives, blindfolded and tied down to have her genitals cut as a young girl. She still remembers the pain, the blood and a woman holding the piece of her flesh above her. Farhio Khalif’s story put a name and face to the little-known cultural ritual now in the national spotlight after a Detroit-area doctor was charged with genital mutilation for allegedly performing the procedure on two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota. A federal judge on Wednesday denied bond for...