Female Circumcision Con
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Imagine watching a horror movie in which a young girl of six is crying out in pain and fear because she is being held down by four women, each holding down either an arm or a leg. While this is going on an older women walks in with a razor blade and walks directly to the child. Without administrating any anesthesia to the girl, she attempts to cut off the child's genitals. Unfortunately, this isn't just fiction; this operation known as female genital mutilation happens everyday in Africa, the Middle East, and Far East. In a recent article news article, The World Health Organization says, "As many as an estimated 130 million of the world's girls and women have undergone genital mutilation" (Gollaher 189). It is easy to see why female circumcision is a barbaric ritual that should be banned.
People generally assume that female and male circumcision are one and the same. However, this is false for two important reasons. Female circumcision doesn't consist of one just one type of operation, instead there are many different types of female circumcision, varying in the degree of how much of the clitoris, labia minora, and labia majora are cut (Althaus). The other reason is due to the environment of where a female child is circumcised...