Daily Champion (Lagos)
11 November 2009
Among the dangers a woman faces in most poor nations of Africa, Asia and the Middle East (and some affluent ones) is the avoidable risk of being circumcised/cut as an infant or, more unwillingly, as a young adult.
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This article only tells half of the story. This year in South Africa alone, 59 young men died of their circumcisions in initiation camps and hundreds more were hospitalised with life threatening complications. Hundreds of these young men will never be able to reproduce in their attempts to "become men." If being a man includes the ability to reproduce, their goal has been permanently been put out of reach. Only when Africa puts men and women on equal footing in their rights to genital integrity can those nations be eligible to be on equal footing with the civilized nations.
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