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My intended audience is my allies who agree that Female Genital Mutilation is an inhumane practice and it should be eradicated.

FGM: An Inhumane Practice
"The child, completely naked, is made to sit on a low stool. Several women take hold of her and open her legs wide. After separating her outer and inner labia, the operator, usually a woman experienced in this procedure, sits down facing the child. With her kitchen knife, the operator first pierces, and slices open the hood of the clitoris. Then she begins to cut it out. While another woman wipes off the blood with a rag, the operator digs with her sharp fingernail a hole the length of the clitoris to detach and pull out the organ. The little girl, held down by the woman helpers, screams in extreme unbearable pain; but no one pays her the slightest attention," writes Fran P. Hosken of Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication. Paul van Zyl from Female Circumcision: Cultural Right or Human Wrong describes......

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