Genital_Mutilation

Genital Mutilation The number of mutilated woman and girls in Africa and the Middle East is increasing due to population growth, according to Win News. But internationally financed population, health and safe motherhood programs ignore Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and have failed to implement effective preventive education. Education should be provided to the woman and men in the participating countries so the risks of this mutilation can be understood fully. FGM is painful, dangerous, and disrespectful to the woman/child and her body and I belive evry woman has the right to education to help make this critical decision. The mutilation most often performed is Clitoridectomy or Excision- cutting off without anesthetic, the clitoris and most of the external genitalia. This is practiced in a broad area from the Red Sea to the Atlantic Coast. The most dangerous operation, Infibulation is customary in Sudan, Somalia, N.Kenya,, W. Africa and all along the Red Sea coast. After the clitoris is excised and all external genitalia are carved away, the bleeding raw edges of the libia majora are held together by thorns or other fasting devices, until a scar forms to close the entrance to the vagina. The legs of the little girl are tied fgm, woman, mutilation, life, education, dangerous, until, together, should, sea, result, red, practiced, population, performed, painful, operations, men, genitalia, external, due, decision, coast, clitoris, children, childbirth, body, being, africa, written, wound, wood, women, essay, woman/child, woman's, without, win, weeks, way, virginity, vagina, urination, urinary, unknown, understood, ultimately, tiny, tied, thus, thorns, think