FGM: Female Genital Mutilation

Title	FGM: Female Genital Mutilation
# of Words	499
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FGM: Female Genital Mutilation

FGM: Female Genital Mutilation

     Female genital mutilation has been practiced in country's around the
world for thousands of years, and will continue to be practiced, until those
that practice it decide to stop.
     Many people who live in country's that are more industrialized, like the
U.S.A., tend to think that no ones believes on right and wrong is correct,
except their own.   That is what comes up in conversation about FGM.
Personally, I am not pro-FGM when it comes to its practice.   However, I believe
people who want to practice it, should be allowed to, without a bunch of
"activists against the practice of FGM" telling them to stop, or even
"informing" them about the potential health risks.   The reason I am against
even explaining the health risks to the people that practice this is, because
whenever you have people that believe enough in something to base their entire
life around it, there is nothing you can do or say that will get them to change;
it would be like talking to a wall.   They will only change when the people
themselves that live by these traditions get fed up with all the side-effects
caused by the practice of FGM.   It is every person and community's right to
decide for themselves, without the intervention of outsiders, to decide to do
whatever they want to do to their bodies and minds.
     I know, "these women that are being circumcised, aren't freely deciding
on this to be done to them, they don't...

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