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Clitorectomy
When most of us think of female genital mutilation, we probably think of faraway places. Well, peel off those blinders. In 1997, our very own Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 168,000 girls and women living in the United States had been or were at risk of being subjected to some form of the abhorrent practice known as female genital mutilation (FGM). Not only is FGM being practiced relatively widely in the United States, it's happening in the most hallowed halls of...