STOPPING THE FLOOD OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: EGYPT BRINGS HISTORIC CASE by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart May 22, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1309/stopping-the-flood-of-female-genital-mutilation Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. For the first time in Egyptian history, an Egyptian physician, Dr. Raslan Fadl, will stand trial for the female genital mutilation of a thirteen-year-old girl—not only because he broke the 2008 Mubarak-era law against such practices but because the girl died. Dr. Fadl claims she had an allergic reaction to the penicillin used for the procedure. Her family will probably settle for compensation for her death, as they cannot accuse the physician of undertaking a procedure that they themselves asked him to perform. Doctors have been seen as the solution to an intractable problem. African and Muslim feminist activists decided that since the practice had such widespread support, that a physician (ideally in a hospital, ideally using anesthesia, and ideally performing a minimal mutilation, not the more common maximal versions) would be safer than an illiterate peasant woman with her rusty razor blades and knives. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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