I agree with all that you've said , especially with "It's educating people about the harm, and about how their bodies work, and doing it in a culturally sensitive way. I'd think. But when you start forcing people to do things, when you criminalize things like this, it just goes underground and people do it anyway. And even more so"
The idea was tossed at us, as a suggestion, and your/our diverse views and reactions should be conveyed to Ms Sabuni and to an even more public Forum - where this matter is being discussed. This would be pooling our resources :
There ought to be an inventory of our views.......
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> From: Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/11/26 sö PM 06:38:58 CET
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> Ämne: Re: Sabuni and FGM (Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past
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> OK, if you want to ban FGM, that is one thing, but has anyone considered that forcing girls to
> undergo an exam to "prove" that they've not had the practice done could be just as "violating" as
> the practice itself? Let's just say she's undergone the practice, you want to make it worse by
> making her get examined to see the extent of the FGM?
>
>
> And let's say she's not undergone the practice, now you want to force her to undergo an exam?
> To prove that she' snot been?
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>
> I can remember being a teenager / child, and I'd have definitely been self-conscience of my
> body, and I'd have been completely uncomfortable having people examine me.
>
>
> So, in order to stop one harm, you're going to do antoher. That's real nice. And the only
> reason why this is even being entertained is because, presumably? an African said it.
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>
> What stops FGM is not forcing people to do certain things, it's education, I guess, or I
> hope anyway. It's educating people about the harm, and about how their bodies work, and doing it
> in a culturally sensitive way. I'd think. But when you start forcing people to do things, when
> you criminalize things like this, it just goes underground and people do it anyway. And even more
> so when you feel as though, rightly or worngly, people are attacking your culture.
>
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> Ginny
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