Samengevat komt het erop neer dat ze vinden dat "een klein beetje" FGC niet illegaal zou moeten zijn. U leest het goed:
"Not physically harmful". Juist ja. De "ritual nick" waarvan sprake isMost forms of FGC [Female Genital Cutting] are decidedly harmful, and pediatricians should decline to perform them, even in the absence of any legal constraints. However the ritual nick suggested by some pediatricians is not physically harmful...
(mijn cursivering)
Met dat verschil natuurlijk, dat je snijdt in de clitoris. Nu kan ik het me moeilijk voorstellen, maar dat kan gewoon niet "minder erg dan een oorpiercing" zijn (die ik me overigens wél kan voorstellen).... pricking or incising the clitoral skin (...) This is no more of an alteration than ear piercing.
In een persmededeling van Equality Now staat:
Dit is een schoolvoorbeeld van een argumentum ad temperantiam. En in strijd met de Eed van Hippocrates:FGM is a form of gender-based violence and discrimination that is performed on girls to control their sexuality in womanhood, guarantee their acceptance into a particular community, and safeguard their virginity until marriage. Taina Bien-Aime, Equality Now's Executive Director explains, "Encouraging pediatricians to perform FGM under the notion of 'cultural sensitivity' shows a shocking lack of understanding of a girl's fundamental right to bodily integrity and equality. The AAP should promote awareness-raising within FGM-practicing immigrant communities about the harms of the practice, instead of endorsing an internationally recognized human rights violation against girls and women."
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Taina Bien-Aime adds, "Throughout the ages 'cultural' practices like foot binding in China have caused lifelong physical and psychological harm to women and girls. If foot binding were still being carried out, would the AAP encourage pediatricians to execute a milder version of this practice?"
The AAP's proposition that pediatricians could offer to "nick" girls' genitalia is problematic and troubling. Advocates fear that mothers who have until now resisted community pressure and not subjected their daughters to FGM in the U.S., in part because of the anti-FGM law, could be forced under the AAP guidelines to ask pediatricians to "nick" their daughters' clitorises if it is legally permitted. The AAP must revoke its statement, which comes at a time when several African and European countries have noted the increasing dangers of medicalization of FGM and specifically banned medical personnel from performing any form of FGM.
En nog tien andere soorten FAIL.Ik zal naar mijn beste oordeel en vermogen en om bestwil mijner zieken hun een leefregel voorschrijven en nooit iemand kwaad doen.
In Nederland zet het kenniscentrum Pharos, in opdracht van het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, zich in tegen FGC. Lees meer op http://www.pharos.nl/programma/preventievgv