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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, using figures from the 1990 Census, estimated that 168,000 girls and women in the U.S. had undergone the procedure or were at risk of being subjected to it.
The State Department estimates that up to 130 million women worldwide had undergone cir***cision as of 2001. Knives, razors or even sharp stones are usually used, according to a 2001 department report. The tools often are not sterilized, and often, many girls are cir***cised at the same ceremony, leading to infection.
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Crazy stuff, statistics. I once read about the top ten ski areas in the USA - a shopping mall in Florida made the list. All the ski areas had to be located within the city limits of a metropolis of 20K or more people! Colorado was not mentioned.
It is twisted to deny a woman pleasure sexually and the numbers in the article are a fine example of sensationalism by statistics.
I say handle this guy appropriately for the cultural discrepancy. It sounds like he had the mutilation performed outside the country and where it is an acceptable procedure. Shocking as that may be, he is not to be punished for it. That would be punishing him for moving outside the scope of that barbaric tradition.
Upon moving among us in common law, he is expected to behave according to the accepted morals and traditions around him here. Maybe that is why he was crying... he regrets what a backward culture did to his daughter. Had he only known in time?
Regards,
David Merrill.
P.S. I edited this post after realizing my calculations were wrong. The figures say one in one-thousand women are cir***cised. I interpreted the numbers in my head to say one in ten.
Cir***cision trial may be first in U.S.
