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Female Genital Mutilation Essay

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Today alone 6000 girls around the world are being held down screaming, crying, and blacking out from the pain pleading for their elders to stop. Their voices fall on deaf ears as their right to sexual pleasure is sliced, chopped, pricked, scraped and burnt away. Female genital mutilation also known as female circumcision is the focus of my speech today. By the time I finish speaking, you will agree that this has got to stop! Today I will explain what FGM is; what are the effects of the procedure and why it is still being performed today. So going back.... What is female Genital Mutilation? FGM is a procedure of partial or total removal of the external female genitalia and/or injury to the female genital organs. There are …show more content…

Nomad girls in Somalia are taken into the desert. Plonked under a little bit of shade, with their legs bound from thigh to ankle for 7-14 days. The girls fading in and out of consciousness from the intense heat and the loss of blood. The pain to urinate through the open wound is unbearable and many girls try to go days without passing fluids, this creates the urinary infections. Traditional herbs are rubbed into the wound, and if the vulva doesn’t heal or the opening is still too big they are often re-operated on. But why would someone be able to do something so cruel to a little girl? Some believe that it is a religious practise. In all the information that i found, this statement was clearly incorrect. In the bible and the Qur’an there is NO instruction or writing which requires the removal of female parts. FGM is expected to have been preformed for the last 1400 years. The Muslims believe it started during what they call ‘al-gahiliyyah’ (era of ignorance). Parts of Somalia believe you have to have it done to be allegeable for a husband. The men are the ones

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