In China, I remember hearing horror stories of women forced by the state to abort late in a pregnancy in keeping with their law of one child only. I was reminded how grand it is to live in a country founded on separation of Church and state. How equally outrageous it would be to force a woman to keep a pregnancy she didn't want. The only choice is choice. Ilena Rosenthal heads the 33 year old Humantics Foundation for Women.
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Congress outlawed the performance of FGM on girls under 18. The Immigration and Naturalization Service must provide a visa-holder, arriving from a country where FGM is widely practiced, information on both the harmful physical and psychological effects of FGM and on the penalties for allowing or practicing FGM on a child. The news media tends to keep our focus on street crime while corporate crime, child abuse, and domestic violence are ignored. If men really cared and wanted to eradicate these crimes, I believe they could in just a few months.