article defending female circumcision

[serendipity22]

from
http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/article.php3?id_article=3752


Though we do not condone the use of violence or intimidation we are also deeply affected by the inflammatory impact of language such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). We declare categorically that this language is offensive, demeaning and an assault against our identities as women, our prerogatives to uphold our cultural definitions of womanhood including determining for ourselves what bodily integrity means to us African women from ethnic groups that practice female and male initiation as parallel and mutually constitutive processes in our societies.


How do you condone the routine circumcision of your sons, if this is the case in your own cultures, and react emotively to the idea of the circumcision of girls?

Yes how do you?

[greengables]

sounds like a man wrote that statement (!)

Since when do little girls get to 'choose' to do this?

Culture or not it is wrong and should be fought against.

[Fuchsia!]

I have nothing against adult circumcision, either female or male as long as it was consented.

But i am against it if the choice was taken away, either Child or adult.

[beebs]

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec19/ch301/ch301b.html

This medical site puts the average age of female circ at 7 years old, has also stated that cired women are more likely to contract HIV and to have a fatal heamorrage at childbirth. Most are carried out without anesthesia.