CULTURAL BLINDNESS AND CIRCUMCISION.
[Intact.America]
I can’t count the times I’ve heard people say that female genital mutilation (FGM) is “much worse” than routine infant male circumcision.
And frankly, I’m tired of it.
Cutting the genitals of children - female or male - is a gross violation of their basic human rights. Period!!
Which is why a recent New York Times article, "Genital Cutting Found in Decline in Many Nations", really galled me.
While it’s indeed encouraging that the incidence of FGM is declining in some African countries, the article failed to note that in the United States, more than a million newborn boys are subjected to circumcision each year.
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