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The knife attacks for the second time. The video shows the abdomen of the child heaving as he cries continuously.
The circumciser then uses a powder to stop the [[bleeding]]. Applied with his bare hands.
The child keeps crying after the cutting. His eyes reflect abandonment and betrayal.
The circumciser dresses the wound. On the top left you can see the string that he will use to tie the bandage... It's on his mouth.
The string is tied to hold the bandage in place. If the string is tied too tight, it could cause [[necrosis ]] and gangrene and lead to the loss of the penis.
The child is still crying, so now to top it all, the circumciser slaps the child's face.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
The procedure has no health benefits for girls and women.
Procedures can cause severe [[bleeding ]] and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth and increased risk of newborn deaths.
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in the 29 countries in Africa and Middle East where FGM is concentrated (1).
FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.
FGM is a violation of the [[human rights ]] of girls and women.
My first observation is that these key facts are missing something very important. Violation of consent.
Intentionally (yes) altering (yes) and causing injury (yes) to the female (no) genital organs (yes) for non-medical reasons (yes)
Health benefits. This is a moot point. While some will argue for the benefits of circumcision, there are also harms (that health organizations refuse to acknowledge) such as the loss of the frenulum, loss of tissue, loss of mobility and long term harm to the glans, and then there are all the risks. Furthermore, in lack of consent, even the benefits are obtained by unethical means.
Procedure can cause severe [[bleeding ]] (yes) and problems urinating (yes - many circumcised boys have meatal stenosis, some develop fistulas, some "medical" methods of circumcision can cause life-threatening [[urine]] retention) and later infections or infertility (if there is loss of the penis). (cyst, complications in childbirth do not apply... furthermore complications in childbirth only applies to one type of FGM, [[infibulation]], not all types).
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut. Close to 20 to 30% of the male population alive today has been cut.
Circumcision is mostly carried out on young boys sometime between infancy and age 15.
[WHO] The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers, who often play other central roles in communities, such as attending childbirths. However, more than 18% of all FGM is performed by health care providers, and the trend towards medicalization is increasing.
[We] In African, Islamic and Jewish communities, circumcision is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers. In the U.S. it is often carried out by the doctors attending childbirths (OB/GYN{{OBGYN}}), whose specialty has little or nothing to do with male genitalia.
[WHO] FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the [[human rights ]] of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death
[We] MC has not been recognized internationally as a violation of [[human rights ]] of boys and girls, but the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe gave a first step in naming non-therapeutic circumcision of underage boys among procedures that violate the children's right to physical integrity. Circumcision reflects inequality between sexes and a form of violence and discrimination against boys. It is nearly always carried out on minors and should be recognized a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person's right to health (externalizing an internal organ, often causing meatal stenosis and loss of erogenous tissue), the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (see the treatment received by the child in the above pictures) and the right to life when the procedure results in death (deaths after circumcisions are not unheard of, both in traditional procedures -such as South Africa every year-, ritual -such as [[Israel]] - or medical -, as in the United States).
[WHO] Immediate complications [of FGM] can include severe pain, [[shock]], [[haemorrhage ]] ([[bleeding]]), tetanus or sepsis (bacterial infection), [[urine]] retention, open sores in the genital region and injury to nearby genital tissue.
[We] Immediate complications of circumcision can include severe pain, [[shock]], [[haemorrhage ]] ([[bleeding]]), sepsis (life threatening), [[urine]] retention, injury to nearby genital tissue (the glans, the shaft).
[WHO] Where FGM is a social convention, the social pressure to conform to what others do and have been doing is a strong motivation to perpetuate the practice.
[WHO] In some societies, FGM is practised by new groups when they move into areas where the local population practice FGM.
[We] (Again, from the UNAIDS article): "The desire to ‘belong’ is also likely to be the main factor behind the high rate of adult male circumcisions among immigrants to [[Israel ]] from non-circumcising countries (predominantly the former Soviet Union)."
After reviewing all these parallels, we call the propaganda of the WHO and Catherine Hankins:
Please help stop male genital mutilation. You can make it stop.
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