Federal Law Doesn’t Require Healthcare Providers to Report FGM Despite Half a Million ’At Risk’
Michael Patrick Leahy
“Female genital ( ) involving partial or total removal of the external genitals of girls and women for religious, cultural, or other nonmedical reasons, has devastating immediate and health and social effects, especially related to childbirth,” the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) a research organized funded in part by the Bill Melissa Gates Foundation, reported in February 2016.
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