In fact. untreated infibulated women have double the risk of maternal death and several times increased risk of stillbirth when compared with women who have not undergone mutilation. The education of medical students regarding FGM is especially essential as under this bill it would be considered illegal to discriminate or deny medical services to any woman who has undergone FGM procedures. Passage of a bill banning FGM would have helped Lydia Oluloro who fought her deportation and that of her two daughters on the grounds that her sister had threatened to kidnap the girls and have the mutilations performed on them if they were forced to return to their native Nigeria. Passage of this bill would also send a clear message to American medical professionals. some of whom reportedly have been offered as much as $3.000 to perform mutilations on young girls. It would see to it that the names of Western doctors who mutilate girls would no longer be passed around in immigrant communities. It would help in prosecuting cases resembling the one faced by the Atlanta district attorney in 1986 In which an Africanborn nurse was charged with child abuse after botching a clitoridectomy on her 3yearold niece. and it would ensure that immigrants are educated as they enter the country regarding the operationss illegality and its dangers. Female genital mutilation is the worlds most widespread form of torture. yet no other mass dilation of humanity has received so comparatively little journalistic or governmental attention. We in the United States should make it clear that it is a serious crime if it occurs here.
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