Female Genital Circumcision
Female Genital Circumcision (FGC)
Also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
These are links to find out more about FGC/FGM:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2736067.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/01/health.healthandwellbeing
http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting
Can it be reversed? Some people seem to think so and are doing something about it. See the links under the associated quotes below:
· “The only midwife in the UK to practice reversals of FGM, Momoh finds that in half of the cases she deals with, it is possible to find the clitoris. “Often the clitoris is just there when you peel the scar tissue back, maybe because when it was done, the child had not developed,” she says. “When I can reverse FGM it makes me so very happy.”
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=print&sid=805
· “An estimated 15,000 girls in the
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2872/is_2_27/ai_75099772/pg_11
· “Thousands of women a year are presenting to medical and community staff in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/01/health.healthandwellbeing
· “Mutilated women will often travel across the country to attend clinics known to have sympathetic and well-informed staff. Harry Gordon worked with Forward to start the first specialist clinic in the
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/01/health.healthandwellbeing
I hope you use my research to start your own research project on the issue. Also here’s the contact info for Central Middlesex Hospital, which was mentioned on more than one occasion during my research.
NW10 7NHS
Main Tel: 020 8965 5733
Comments
Dr Foldes is well known in France for the work he does and several women travel from Britain to consult him. There is one I know going over very soon, to have the operation before she marries.
Thanks again and Be blessed forever.
Suprina