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Circumstances.
Without good medical cause or adult consent of the affected individual, it most certainly is mutilation.
(and lets be clear, the medical causes out there are dodgy at best and complete lies at worst)
And anyone trying the social or functional arguments should start a thread on the aesthetic, social and religious benefits of female genital cutting on the under-aged.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
Last edited by tisonlyi; 06-01-2009 at 08:05 AM..
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