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International human rights organization 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.
Whatever happened to "first, do no harm"? - The American Academy of Pediatrics has come up with a COMPROMISE on female genital mutilation.
Seeded on Mon May 10, 2010 12:43 PM EDT
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They do say that they offer "nicking" as a compromise to avoid greater harm, so that the parents are satisfied and do not go looking for more severe forms of mutilation to perpetrate on their children. It is not enough. Their whole policy is designed to avoid confronting misogynistic bigots with the horrendous consequences of their traditions.
#1 - Mon May 10, 2010 12:43 PM EDTNice bit of accommodationism there. "We'll just mutilate baby girls a little bit, to make the misogynist patriarchal @!$%#s happy." Well, we have no obligation to make misogynist patriarchal @!$%#s happy at all, especially not when it involves waving scalpels about in the genitals of children.
I just wanted to reiterate that bit right there.
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