Female Genital Mutilation--Why the Practice is not Morally Wrong <Tab/>Almost everyone who has heard of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is without some form of opinion of the custom, which affects 100 million women in 26 African countries, and elsewhere in the world. It has been declared a gross violation of the human rights of woman and female children. However, at the same time some argue that the procedures are …showed first 75 words of 861 total…

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