Surf these sites: Female Circumcision Issues Bill -- Text of a proposed bill to prohibit female genital mutilation in the United States. Female Circumcision Issues Page -- A bill written by Rep. Pat Schroeder to prohibit female genital mutilation. Female Circumcision: Clitorectomy and Infibulations -- Academic articles of interest to be used as a resource for women dealing with these issues. Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique -- This 1959 medical journal article reveals how American medicine condoned female circumcision with arguments similar to those still used today to justify male circumcision. We offer this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these similarities and expose medical arrogance. Female Genital Mutilation Network and Message Board -- Network and Message Board for cultural issue of female genital mutilation practiced mostly in Africa, Middle East, Malaysia & by immigrant communties from these cultures. How is Female Circumcision Trivialized? -- "In the same manner as male circumcision, of course!" - Read an extensive list of medical and lay comments about female circumcision. RACOG - Women''s Health - Female Genital Mutilation -- Information for Australian health professionals. Published by The Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Rainbo Homepage -- While contributing to the advancement of the field in general, we are currently focusing our work on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation to assert women''s rights to their bodily integrity. The FGM Research Homepage -- Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGM. The Three Feminine Sorrows -- The issue of the cultural practice of female genital mutilation from the point of view of urologist Dr. Jean Fourcroy, past president of the American Medical Women''s Assoc. UNICEF and the Medicalization of FGM -- Documentation of the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Kenya.
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