Until now, you could burn, torture or mutilate a woman, and it was never counted. We finally made them see that abuse of women is a human-rights issue, not a cultural issue. The Colorado Democrat favors economic sanctions against countries that tolerate genital mutilation. But many African-born women who live in the U.S. are opposed. The practice is not being done intentionally to harm anyone.
Mothers do it in good faith for their children.
If you cut funding to these countries, you are hurting the people you want to protect. It's like saying Harlem women give their children AIDS because they don't love them. In reality it's more complex. It's not going to stop overnight. That is precisely what Oluloro believes.