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I don’t know what it is about Connecticut that we just can’t get this done to protect young women from having their bodies ...

Female genital mutilation doesn’t just plague millions of women in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where it’s still practiced. Long-term medical and emotional problems caused by the ...

Under a series of new laws signed Tuesday, Michigan became the 26th state to place a criminal ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, according to NPR. The new legislation imposes a prison sentence ...

Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

DETROIT — Protesters outside of the U.S. federal courthouse in Detroit argued Monday to outlaw circumcision of boys in the wake of last week's announcement of a highly publicized criminal case of ...

In 1996, doctors at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle decided to offer its Somali patient population what was characterized at the time as a “ritual nick” to adolescent girls, as a way to avoid ...

On Aug.19, the Kentucky Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare and Family Services heard testimony on female genital mutilation. No one likes talking about genitals, especially the genitals of ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

Even more than two decades later, Harry Reid is haunted by the video an activist told him to watch. Men grabbed a little girl in a white dress at a celebration in Egypt, then spread her legs and ...