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Two UK Royal Colleges have raised concerns about guidance issued by American paediatricians on female genital mutilation in which they suggest that doctors could offer families “a ritual nick as a possible compromise to avoid greater harm.”
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health say in a statement that, “To suggest that a qualified medical practitioner is involved in this practice as a ‘compromise’ does not make it less brutal and has the danger of giving legitimacy to FGM [female genital mutilation]. Two …
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