Female Genital Mutilation Essay

Female Genital Mutilation
By: Kasey Jordana

Female genital mutilation is cutting of the female genitals and it was considered a right of passage in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It’s a reflection of inequality between sexes and it is discrimination against women. Most of the time it is done on minors from age infancy to 15 and it is considered violation of rights of children. The procedure violates a persons rights to health because it can hurt you physically or it can even lead to death. In this paper I am going to give more information on what the procedure consists of, issues with it, and some statistics so we can know how other people in other countries are being treated. I am against it I do not think people have the
Reactions to trauma may occur from the Female genital mutilation and most likely they will be bad reactions. It causes anxiety, depressive symptoms, and being withdrawn from others. It causes effects on sexuality, girls are being mistreated. War, famine, and immigration issues and most likely you are going to have those bad dreams about it which is caused from the post traumatic stress disorder. Also there will be conflict with family and community, why did they let the girls go through all of this? Theses are the mental and physiological reactions these kids might go through after having a female genital mutilation. 44 million female genital mutilation victims are aged 14 or younger and majority of the girls had their genitals cut before they were five. 200 million girls today have undergone female genital mutilation. 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year. Female genital mutilation happens in 30 countries but mostly just in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In the US more than 1 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation, including 166,173 under the age of 18. There is no real reason why people even need this done other countries just force girls to have it done so they can’t enjoy sex. There are absolutely no health benefits to having a female genital mutilation done, in fact it causes many health
It has no health benefits and it can cause long term health issues. My stand on it is I think it is terrible to do that to women and girls especially at such a young age. God made sex for a reason and he made it to be special so I don’t think people should be cutting off girls genitals so they can’t feel the pleasure of sex. I think it is sad how some girls are forced to have it done in other countries, most of the time before they turn 15 years old. It is crazy how there are four different types you can get done and how popular it is in these other countries. Overall we all need to be educated on it and talk with our communities about ending all female genital