12 Year Old Clitorectomized Girl DIES

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/06/death-of-12-yea.html

Religion of Misogyny strikes again. What is it going to take? What has to happen? Apparently Norway is trying to nip this horror in the bud. Gates of Vienna: Norway Cracks Down on Female Genital Mutilation (hat tip Can)

Death of 12-Year-Old Circumcised Girl Shocks Egypt, Prompts Ban on Rite Hat tip Atlas readers

CAIRO, Egypt — The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country's south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities this week to ban the practice.

The girl, Badour Shaker, died earlier in June while being circumcised in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she had paid $9 dollars to a female physician to perform the procedure.

The mother also told the paper that the doctor later tried to bribe her to withdraw a lawsuit accusing the physician of murder, in return for $3,000, but she refused.

A forensic investigation into the case showed the girl's death was caused by an anesthesia overdose during the procedure.

The case sparked widespread condemnation and was closely followed in Egyptian papers, which also reported that Shaker had passed out sweets to pupils in her class earlier on the day of her death, to celebrate her good grades.

It also evoked memories of a 1995 CNN television documentary depicting a barber circumcising a 10-year-old girl in a Cairo slum.


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