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Female Genitalia

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  1. Posted on Thursday 28 February 2008 - 01:53
    Harold
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    In line with MDG targets to reduce maternal and infant mortality by 2015, please join in the research quest to confirm whether surgical alteration to female genitalia is a necessary aspect of African Culture.

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  1. Posted on Thursday 28 February 2008 02:03
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    Harold Williams
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    The use of the phrase Female Circumcision/ Genital Surgery/ Incision or Alteration is the beginning of a better dialogue than using Female Genital Mutilation. The term "Mutilation" has rather criminal inflections. The effort to get its practitioners to abandon this practice will not be assisted by the language of persecution. Men are often more ignorant than the women of the pros and cons of the practice. Men should always be a target group for any address of the situation.
    I am interested to know if there is any way AfricaNews Contributors could band together to weigh up these pros and cons.
    Harold A. Williams