Tackling female genital cutting in Somalia.
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issue in an informed way, there should be greater research into whether affected women view themselves as victims of assault or as active and willing participants in a necessary social act. As J Tim Scott reasoned in a letter to the British Medical Journal (www.bmj.com/cgi/eleters/321/7256/ 262#EL3 [accessed Sept 25, 2001]), some supporters of the educative approach rather than a total ban may argue that allowing some licensed medical practitioners to provide minimal forms of circumcision such as “token nicks” to satisfy “honour” could prevent much greater harm than permitting unlicensed operators to perform radical excisions. The BMA considers, however, that health professionals should not carry out female genital mutilation and that the practice constitutes “a clear breach of human rights”. The BMA report also recalls the WHO statement that “the medicalisation of the procedure does not eliminate this harm and is inappropriate for two major reasons: genital mutilation runs against basic ethics of health care whereby unnecessary bodily mutilation cannot be condoned by health providers; and, its medicalisation seems to legitimise the harmful practice”. In any circumstance, all women must have the right to be protected against any form of genital mutilation.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Lancet
دوره 358 9288 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001