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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.
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.
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.