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W.H.O estimates that between 100 and 140 million girls and women worldwide are living with the consequences of FGM today.
FGM is a harmful practice, a violation of women and children’s right. It’s not a cutting neither is it a circumcision it is a mutilation. Some say it helps preserves virginity and ensuring fidelity, others say it enhances fertility and infant survival and some even say its religion; completely barbaric in my opinion.
Why do we do this to our girl child? Listen to the cry of seliat, a 10year old as she screams and wails because of the pain of MUTILATION; she is being cut in her vagina in the name of a so-called culture. The risks are high! Or is it the complications Rachael faced at childbirth and today she is no more or the social stigma Rakiya faces in her community if she doesn’t undergo the procedure or is it the swelling that leads to painful urination and defecation some women face.
By all standards, it violates the rights of the girl child and women. If all are equal, why do some of us have a vital part of our sexual organ mutilated without our consent? Why do we have to be cajoled to allow mutilation? Why are our health endangered and our well being meddled with?
Let the World hear me today, Female Genital Mutilation KILLS, it has no advantage whatsoever rather it pose a high risk to our lives and other complications.
For the sake of those who because of FGM have lost their lives, their virginity, opportunities, sexual sensitivity or have dealt with various diseases that it causes, let us put an END to this.
