Time to conflate the battle against circumcision and FGM as ‘Childhood Genital Mutilation’ (CGM).
Since you're so sure of that, let's see if you can read this & then tell us - with specific references to actual facts - how the bioethicist who wrote it gets it wrong:https://quillette.com/2017/08/15/female-genital-mutilation-health-benefits-problem-medicalizing-morality/ …
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Your source provides a distinctly libertarian perspective, which is interesting. However, to suggest that, because some FGM is only partially invasive, it should be allowed, rather misses the point. The article merely highlights the dangers of sophistry.
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"All children—female, male, and intersex... should get to decide whether they want their 'private parts' nicked, pricked, labiaplastied, 'normalized,' circumcised, or sewn, at an age when they can appreciate what is really at stake." So you decided to ignore the conclusion?
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