(June 11, 2016 at 9:49 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Actually they've found no evidence to support that FGM has any health benefits whatsoever, and it has a whole host of complications that can arise
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/
Just thought it was important to put this out there.
Well, there have been at least two reports that have shown "health benefits" of FGM. Two links provided below (the second link does not have the full text available for free to the public, so unless you have a subscription to the appropriate journal, just ignore that).
http://documents.mx/documents/female-cir...gendo.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1442755
But anyway, point is, health benefits or not, the practice itself is barbaric and should be seen as such for both male and female genital mutilation.