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San Francisco to Vote on Circumcision Ban

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Lobengula5/18/2011 6:36:27 pm PDT

@boblevin

Of course you’d have lasting complications. You must be joking.


A week old child will repair a broken femur in a matter of days. By and large, there will be no lasting complications.
And you’re missing the point! If legislature makes exceptions for cultural practices, why not allow certain FGM practices? If your opinion is similar to Funky chicken’s:

one procedure makes it impossible for the person to ever experience orgasm or proper sexual functioning and makes childbirth much more dangerous

then this argument betrays gross ignorance. Here in the UK, we have to report girls with even class 1a FGM, even though there are no lasting physical or psychosexual ramifications. Why make allowances for MGM?