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. Passage of this amendment 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. 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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