Lawyer: Genital procedure on girls was part of 'religious practice'
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/04/17/doctor-admits-genital-procedures-girls-denies-cutting/100574190/
@SZonian @EC @CatherineofAragon @goatprairieAs is clear from other sources, as well as this article, this was female
circumcision, the removal of the skin covering the clitoris, just like a male circumcision removes the skin covering the glans. As the article delicately puts it: "...
removed the membrane from the girls' genitals...".
But the law is perfectly fine with boys being mutilated. Do the
same thing to a female, though, and it's considered "female genital mutilation" and is illegal.
"Religious practice"...uhm, ok, sure. Celebrate diversity!
I wonder whether you take that approach for Judiasm, which also practices genital mutilation of minors for religious practice.
While I'm against the mutilation of minors, male or female, I think that we should be handling these cases more fairly. And we should recognize that circumcision isn't the same as clitorectomy.