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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful traditional practice that involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to female genital organs for non-medical reasons (WHO, 2020). Over 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM, with approximately 3 million girls at risk each year (UNICEF, 2016).
Mar 11, 2014 · its resulting mutilation is thereby seen as torture given its immediate and long-term effect on women's reproductive and sexual health. Those opposing FGM believe that physicians who perform the operation are violating the medical code of ethics as well as the child's or woman's right to bodily integ- rity.
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Despite global and local attempts to end female genital mutilation (FGM), the practice persists in some parts of the world and has spread to non‐traditional countries through immigration. FGM is of varying degrees of invasiveness, but all forms raise health‐related concerns that can be of considerable physical or psychological severity.
- E Turillazzi, V Fineschi
- 2007
May 12, 2017 · Abstract. Two hundred million girls and women in the world are estimated to have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), and another 15 million girls are at risk of experiencing it by 2020 in high prevalence countries (UNICEF, 2016. Female genital mutilation/cutting: a global concern. 2016).
- Rajat Khosla, Joya Banerjee, Doris Chou, Lale Say, Susana T. Fried
- 2017
Sep 8, 2021 · 2.1. Search Strategy. A systematic review of attitudes toward FGM/C was conducted using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines [ 15 ]. Cross-sectional studies investigating the attitudes of FGM/C were examined. The search was done by two experienced researchers.
- Leila Jahangiry, Tahereh Pashaei, Koen Ponnet
- 10.3390/healthcare9091184
- 2021
- Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Sep; 9(9): 1184.
Dec 10, 2020 · Article. Zero Tolerance for Genital Mutilation: a Review of Moral Justifications. Sociocultural Issues and Epidemiology (J Abdulcadir & D Bader, Section Editors) Published: 10 December 2020. Volume 12 , pages 276–288, ( 2020 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Brian D. Earp. 971 Accesses. 15 Citations. 31 Altmetric. Explore all metrics.
Dec 24, 2019 · Ethics. Morale. Article PDF Available. Mutilation or Enhancement? What Is Morally at Stake in Body Alterations. December 2019. Authors: Brian D. Earp. University of Oxford. Citations (8)...
