22/33 AAP’s frustration at its inability to address these & similar questions has never been greater, & increases all the time. Some #tweetiatricians block/mute them & it’s clearly b/c there’s no way to defend the amputation of healthy #foreskin from a child’s body as ethical.
3/5 Nevertheless, @WHO defines it as FGM. Some women subjected to this cutting, just like some cut men, "insist that they didn't mind, and are proud of being cut" in part b/c they, like some cut men, consider it to be religiously required. "Moreover, at least two studies by...
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4/5 "Western scientists have shown a negative correlation between female circumcision and HIV. The authors of one of the studies, both seasoned statisticians who expected to find the opposite relationship, described their findings as a 'significant and perplexing inverse...
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5/5 "association between reported female circumcision and HIV seropositivity." Can you explain - w/reference to specific facts - why these & other points of comparison between FGM & MGM made in this article are wrong?
@briandavidearp#i2#AAP18#mededhttps://quillette.com/2017/08/15/female-genital-mutilation-health-benefits-problem-medicalizing-morality/ … - 1 more reply
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