Re: When do or should customs trump law?
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Female genital mutilation may or may not be illegal in the countries of origin, but it is absolutely the culture there.
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Absolutely! As much as I feel, as many others, that the practice should be abolished I have encountered quite a few women that after there babies are born want the doctors to repair the circumcision.
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What do you mean "repair" it? Do you actually see women who have had this type of procedure? I'm shocked. I would have thought it quite rare.
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