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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I see a large population of African women who have been circumcised, sorry for being blunt, and sewn closed for the most part.
After they have their babies they(some) want to be sewn back shut-to some extent.
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