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Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

Posted by Sancho Panza on 2010-June-18 14:13:26 EDT, Friday
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"While the whole world was debating the American Academy of Pediatrics' position on "female genital cutting"—the AAP was against it before they were for it, and now, after an outcry, they're against it again—Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder have been raising the alarm about "medical research" currently being conducted at Cornell University. A pediatric urologist at Cornell—Dix Poppas—has been operating on little girls with what he judges to be oversized clitorises, cutting away important clitoral tissues, and then stitching the glans to what remains of the shaft. Poppas claims that, unlike past clitoral-reduction procedures, his procedure is "nerve sparing."

Who is the one to decide whether or not a clitoris is to big?
Pretty sure they didn't ask the girls about it.

Pretty long article but worth reading I think, also have a look at the comments.

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