The Pros And Cons Of Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation’s ritual should not do this practice because women suffer many injustices in the community. A lot of discrimination when girls do not want to have a circumcision. For instance, Eltahawy, Mona. "Fighting Female Genital Mutilation." stated, “This cutting is believed to reduce a girl’s sex drive. And families believe their daughters are unmarriageable unless they are cut.” This quote signifies that girls must be circumcision to get married. Moreover, numerous families are suffering the outcome of this abuse. Besides, many organizations try to help these families. Apparently, countries have more power than the organization such as the United Nations. For example, Eltahawy, Mona. "Fighting Female Genital Mutilation." said, “Many international treaties designate female genital mutilation a violation of the human rights of girls and women's. On Oct. 30, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, announced a global campaign to end it within a generation. Egypt first banned the practice in 1959, and then permitted it again in some forms.”
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From each database, we extracted information on whether FGM was recorded, and the type of FGM, for woman who had given birth. From the ObstetriX Database, we extracted the following perinatal outcomes: caesarean section, instrumental birth, medio-lateral episiotomy, genital tract trauma (first and second, third and fourth degree perineal tears), postpartum blood loss of more than 500 ml, admission of the newborn to the special care nursery, and stillbirth. Stillbirth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of at least 20 weeks’ gestation or 400 g birth weight who did not, at any time after birth, breathe, or show any evidence of life, such as a
From each database, we extracted information on whether FGM was recorded, and the type of FGM, for woman who had given birth. From the ObstetriX Database, we extracted the following perinatal outcomes: caesarean section, instrumental birth, medio-lateral episiotomy, genital tract trauma (first and second, third and fourth degree perineal tears), postpartum blood loss of more than 500 ml, admission of the newborn to the special care nursery, and stillbirth. Stillbirth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception of at least 20 weeks’ gestation or 400 g birth weight who did not, at any time after birth, breathe, or show any evidence of life, such as a