FGM Among Us

Authors:
Colleen Curry, James Hitchings-Hales, Jackie Marchildon, Jana Sepehr

Female genital mutilation (FGM) — the dangerous non-medical and non-religious practice that intentionally removes female genital organs — is not a foreign problem. There are 200 million women worldwide who have undergone it. But did you know it exists in the Western world too?

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