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Any Planned Parenthood clinic will 1. work on a sliding fee scale, and 2. protect confidentiality, although they may have an obligation to report abuse if she's under 18.
Religious schmeligious, female circumcision is a cultural aberration based on the worst kind of misunderstanding of gender and sexuality. Ignorance is ignorance, no matter what shield it hides behind. Get your friend to a doctor to make sure she's all right, and then perhaps to a counselor to deal with the issues I'm sure she's going to have to deal with.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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