Female genital mutilation is apparently a big thing in Egypt. And now with a doctor acquitted of manslaughter, after a 12-year-old girl died during an alleged mutilation, it seems that it is full speed ahead to prevent women from experiencing sexual pleasure. From the Guardian story:
The case was pursued rigorously by activists and state officials in the hope that it would send a strong message to doctors that FGM, which was nominally made illegal in 2008, will no longer be tolerated in Egypt. Instead, said a lawyer from a local rights group – the first to take up Sohair’s case – the verdict signalled the opposite.
“Of course there will be no stopping any doctor after this. Any doctor can do any FGM he wants now,” said Atef Aboelenein, a lawyer for the Women’s Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness, who was the first to find out the verdict.
This is a human rights violation of the first order, which is intended to oppress, diminish, and destroy natural response.
The world may not be able to do much about what happens in Egypt or other countries where cutting off a girl’s clitoris is common. But when it happens in the West, we should come down like a ton of bricks.