REPUGNANT,REPREHENSIBLE AND HORRENDOUS ACT OF MUTILATION;
"...Across a wide swath of animist and Muslim Africa,young girls are subjected to the hell of circumcision and infibulation ,which involves the slicing off of the Labia and the clitoris,often with a sharp stone and then the stitching up of the vaginal opening with strong twine,not to be removed until it is broken by male force on the bridalnight.Compassion and biology allows for a small aperture to be left,meanwhile,for the passage of menstrual blood.The resulting stench,pain,humiliation and misery exceed anything that can be easily imagined and inevitably result in infection,sterility ,shame and the death of many women and babies in childbirth.No society would tolerate such an insult to its womanhood and therefore to its survival if the foul practice was not holy and sanctified."
[Christopher Hitchens,God is not great,page 50].
What Are the Problems?
There are many physical and psychological problems that a woman may face after having any of the three types of Female Genital Mutilation. These include the transmission of HIV, as the same unsanitary tools (such as unclean shards of glass, razor blades etc.) are used to perform the surgery on many different women without being sanitized. The surgery is often performed without anesthesia, leaving the woman in an extreme amount of pain. Women can experience extreme blood loss which can lead to possible death, as well as high infection rates, pregnancy conflicts and psychological damage among many other things. A report states that 1/3 of the Sudanese girls who undergo the surgery do not survive it. The pains a woman goes through after her surgery are sometimes referred to as the "three feminine sorrows." Not only does the woman feel extreme pain on the day of her surgery, but also will she on the night of her marriage when her vagina is reopened, and the day she gives birth. The surgery has lasting effects for a woman.
"...Across a wide swath of animist and Muslim Africa,young girls are subjected to the hell of circumcision and infibulation ,which involves the slicing off of the Labia and the clitoris,often with a sharp stone and then the stitching up of the vaginal opening with strong twine,not to be removed until it is broken by male force on the bridalnight.Compassion and biology allows for a small aperture to be left,meanwhile,for the passage of menstrual blood.The resulting stench,pain,humiliation and misery exceed anything that can be easily imagined and inevitably result in infection,sterility ,shame and the death of many women and babies in childbirth.No society would tolerate such an insult to its womanhood and therefore to its survival if the foul practice was not holy and sanctified."
[Christopher Hitchens,God is not great,page 50].
What Are the Problems?
There are many physical and psychological problems that a woman may face after having any of the three types of Female Genital Mutilation. These include the transmission of HIV, as the same unsanitary tools (such as unclean shards of glass, razor blades etc.) are used to perform the surgery on many different women without being sanitized. The surgery is often performed without anesthesia, leaving the woman in an extreme amount of pain. Women can experience extreme blood loss which can lead to possible death, as well as high infection rates, pregnancy conflicts and psychological damage among many other things. A report states that 1/3 of the Sudanese girls who undergo the surgery do not survive it. The pains a woman goes through after her surgery are sometimes referred to as the "three feminine sorrows." Not only does the woman feel extreme pain on the day of her surgery, but also will she on the night of her marriage when her vagina is reopened, and the day she gives birth. The surgery has lasting effects for a woman.
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