Saturday, October 07, 2006

A Little Good News

This is long overdue. I just hope the practice isn't continued by non-professionals.
The Indonesian government announced this week that it is prohibiting doctors and nurses from performing female genital cutting. According to Reuters, some Indonesian groups encourage families to perform female genital mutiliation, possibly to maintain chastity and virginity before marriage and to ensure faithfulness in the women’s marriage.

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