It's female genital mutilation and should be prosecuted

2007/06/28 by Marge Berer · 2 citations
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues #Genital Health and Disease #Law in Society and Culture

paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/bmj.39252.646042.3a

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Abstract

Liao and Creighton ask how healthcare providers in the United Kingdom should respond to requests for “genitoplasty,”1 or what two UK websites call “labial reduction” and “female genital reshaping.”2 3 This procedure, which entails “the partial or total removal of the external female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons,”4 is a criminal offence in the UK under …

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