Comments on: Out: Female Genital Mutilation, In: Female Genital “Nicking,” Says American Academy of Pediatrics http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Penfire http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-194593 Penfire Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:56:34 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-194593 Don't compare this to circumcision...that is stupidity. Circumcision has been proved to improve hygiene. The practic of doing even a small "nick" on a baby girl has no redeeming qualities to it for the child or the person she will become. It is tantamount to approving this backward cultural evil. It will not cause it to go away in the least, it is only another "progressive" step toward globalism and one world government. It will eventually become a political issue that Progressive Democrats will use in their platform to engender votes from their Muslim Sharia constituents. Don't compare this to circumcision…that is stupidity. Circumcision has been proved to improve hygiene. The practic of doing even a small "nick" on a baby girl has no redeeming qualities to it for the child or the person she will become.

It is tantamount to approving this backward cultural evil. It will not cause it to go away in the least, it is only another "progressive" step toward globalism and one world government. It will eventually become a political issue that Progressive Democrats will use in their platform to engender votes from their Muslim Sharia constituents.

]]> By: DodiaFae http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-130591 DodiaFae Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:19:56 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-130591 Appologies, the link didn't post for some reason. Here it is: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/25/female-circumcision-children-british-law" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/25/fem...</a> Appologies, the link didn't post for some reason. Here it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/25/fem...

]]> By: DodiaFae http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-130590 DodiaFae Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:19:05 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-130590 I realize this discussion is 4 weeks past being active, but just in case anyone checks back in... <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/25/female-circumcision-children-british-law" target="_blank">This</a> is what we'd be heading towards if we give any leeway at all on this issue. Just look at those girl's faces. If any of you who said "it's not so bad" still feel that way, feel free to have it done to yourself first. I realize this discussion is 4 weeks past being active, but just in case anyone checks back in…

This is what we'd be heading towards if we give any leeway at all on this issue. Just look at those girl's faces. If any of you who said "it's not so bad" still feel that way, feel free to have it done to yourself first.

]]> By: Soraya Mire' http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-117552 Soraya Mire' Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:38:57 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-117552 Like you, I was in disbelief when I read the AAP's original statement. I'm also shocked to read Pat stating that a "prick" shouldn't be that of a deal." Seriously...the pain and torture of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will certainly tear a child's heart like a ripped cloth! As a Somali-American, a survivor, I still remember the day they tied my wrists and legs down to the surgical table to prick and mutilate the hell out of me. I screamed with pain as I fought to get free but, no-one listened to the cries rising from my depth. The pain was unbearable and I felt like my body was sitting on a fast sewing machine. That deep and private pain was stamped into my mind, forever. Like Kanwi said to you "don't be such an apologist for a barbaric cultural practice." But you might still think that "pricking" a childs health clitoris to get a blood "shouldn't be that of a deal." In truth, I can tell you that our private wounds transcends the physical. It's a psychological wound; a betrayal left by those we trusted the most with our wellness. Pricking will certainly allow the child abuse to continue which is to "satisfy cultural requirement," handed down from mother to daughter like a treasured heirloom. Speaking for those who have no voice, I called the AAP and asked them to retract the statement. I asked them not to put any childs body through the mutilating ritual and watch them become nothing more than the pleasurable commodity of men. The AAP didn't need to think or act like those half blind midwives in Africa forcing the girl's to sit on the hot sand full of thorns. No one has a right to touch or cut child's healthy genitalia. No one should hurt a child leaving a scar in her or his mind and body, forever. As we, the survivors, deal with the flashbacks, the AAP needed to hear that we live with the anguish of what has been done to us and our loved ones. It's important to recognize that human rights are universal and indivisible. I received a personal call from the AAP reaffirming its opposition to the practice of Female Genital Mutilation. The Academy promised to retract its policy and apologized to the survivors for bringing up the painful memories of FGM. On May 27, 2010 the AAP withdrew their policy statement. Now we can go forward to heal and end this cultural practice which I call the "ultimate child abuse." Thank you, Soraya Mire' Like you, I was in disbelief when I read the AAP’s original statement. I’m also shocked to read Pat stating that a “prick” shouldn’t be that of a deal.” Seriously…the pain and torture of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will certainly tear a child’s heart like a ripped cloth! As a Somali-American, a survivor, I still remember the day they tied my wrists and legs down to the surgical table to prick and mutilate the hell out of me. I screamed with pain as I fought to get free but, no-one listened to the cries rising from my depth. The pain was unbearable and I felt like my body was sitting on a fast sewing machine. That deep and private pain was stamped into my mind, forever. Like Kanwi said to you “don’t be such an apologist for a barbaric cultural practice.” But you might still think that “pricking” a childs health clitoris to get a blood “shouldn’t be that of a deal.” In truth, I can tell you that our private wounds transcends the physical. It’s a psychological wound; a betrayal left by those we trusted the most with our wellness. Pricking will certainly allow the child abuse to continue which is to “satisfy cultural requirement,” handed down from mother to daughter like a treasured heirloom. Speaking for those who have no voice, I called the AAP and asked them to retract the statement. I asked them not to put any childs body through the mutilating ritual and watch them become nothing more than the pleasurable commodity of men. The AAP didn’t need to think or act like those half blind midwives in Africa forcing the girl’s to sit on the hot sand full of thorns. No one has a right to touch or cut child’s healthy genitalia. No one should hurt a child leaving a scar in her or his mind and body, forever. As we, the survivors, deal with the flashbacks, the AAP needed to hear that we live with the anguish of what has been done to us and our loved ones. It’s important to recognize that human rights are universal and indivisible. I received a personal call from the AAP reaffirming its opposition to the practice of Female Genital Mutilation. The Academy promised to retract its policy and apologized to the survivors for bringing up the painful memories of FGM. On May 27, 2010 the AAP withdrew their policy statement. Now we can go forward to heal and end this cultural practice which I call the “ultimate child abuse.”

Thank you,
Soraya Mire’

]]> By: GuestDelores http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-116212 GuestDelores Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:43:31 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-116212 America's collective heart should stop talking and our FEDERAL lawyers should get off their asses and stop the practice of female child genital mutilation/nicking in the name of the moslems. Period. America's collective heart should stop talking and our FEDERAL lawyers should get off their asses and stop the practice of female child genital mutilation/nicking in the name of the moslems. Period.

]]> By: GuestDelores http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-116210 GuestDelores Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:43:00 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-116210 It is like women that are taught episiotomies are necessary and aren't "that bad". A doctor's wife tried to teach me to push it onto patients-because she wanted to have more to bill money for. Sick. Episiotomies aren't necessary. Many times they cause life-long problems, break up marriages, due to the healing process that takes a long time if you get a bad one or get a forceps birth, etc. Most episiotomies don't involve the clitoris-but if an accident should occur and a tear happens in the clitoris-it is horrible and takes a long time to get over-if you can. Lots of money for the docs from the delivery room to the psychiatrist and divorce lawyers and family court. I can't even imagine "nicking" a little innocent child - who will never understand why-they will just be forced to accept out of fear. It is like women that are taught episiotomies are necessary and aren't "that bad". A doctor's wife tried to teach me to push it onto patients-because she wanted to have more to bill money for. Sick. Episiotomies aren't necessary. Many times they cause life-long problems, break up marriages, due to the healing process that takes a long time if you get a bad one or get a forceps birth, etc. Most episiotomies don't involve the clitoris-but if an accident should occur and a tear happens in the clitoris-it is horrible and takes a long time to get over-if you can. Lots of money for the docs from the delivery room to the psychiatrist and divorce lawyers and family court. I can't even imagine "nicking" a little innocent child – who will never understand why-they will just be forced to accept out of fear.

]]> By: GuestDelores http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-116209 GuestDelores Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:42:22 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-116209 WHY CAN'T THE DOCTORS, HOSPITALS AND INTERNATIONAL/FEDERAL/STATE LAW GET TOGETHER TO PROTECT OUR AMERICAN FEMALE POPULATION AS WELL AS THAT OF THE WORLD? So the moslems will go back to their own country to do it? So be it-rather than them dragging their disgusting practices into our free America. It IS making America one step closer to becoming the 58th islamic state-what the moslems purpose really is here. Let's do something about this problem, America. I had no idea they were "nicking" little girls in America-whotheheckdotheythinktheyare? It hurts-there is no way that isn't psychologically scarring. WHY CAN'T THE DOCTORS, HOSPITALS AND INTERNATIONAL/FEDERAL/STATE LAW GET TOGETHER TO PROTECT OUR AMERICAN FEMALE POPULATION AS WELL AS THAT OF THE WORLD? So the moslems will go back to their own country to do it? So be it-rather than them dragging their disgusting practices into our free America. It IS making America one step closer to becoming the 58th islamic state-what the moslems purpose really is here. Let's do something about this problem, America. I had no idea they were "nicking" little girls in America-whotheheckdotheythinktheyare? It hurts-there is no way that isn't psychologically scarring.

]]> By: GuestDelores http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-116207 GuestDelores Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:40:59 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-116207 I noticed something everyone has overlooked-What is the Insurance/Doctor's office Superbilling code for this child genital mutilation procedure? THAT is what this is all about. I can hear the "professionals" discussing the situation clearly: "Well....they are going to do it anyway....they will send the child somewhere else and pay big bucks too....What would a 'nick' hurt? The parents will have proof, (for whomever it is in islam that checks up on them), and the child will recover"..... There is no excuse for that procedure to be done in America or in the world. A child is supposed to have post-birth rights in America, if she/he is blessed enough to not be aborted by their mother before birth. I realize the legal worry is that if mutilation of a child is made illegal-it will mean BOTH sexes-and, no more circumcisions of males unless a court order is obtained. What is the problem with that? Drs and hospitals have been calling into get Judges' permission to give blood transfusions to a baby ,(in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses), for decades now-the same could be done in the case of male circumcision-make a flow of money there- I noticed something everyone has overlooked-What is the Insurance/Doctor's office Superbilling code for this child genital mutilation procedure? THAT is what this is all about. I can hear the "professionals" discussing the situation clearly: "Well….they are going to do it anyway….they will send the child somewhere else and pay big bucks too….What would a 'nick' hurt? The parents will have proof, (for whomever it is in islam that checks up on them), and the child will recover"….. There is no excuse for that procedure to be done in America or in the world. A child is supposed to have post-birth rights in America, if she/he is blessed enough to not be aborted by their mother before birth. I realize the legal worry is that if mutilation of a child is made illegal-it will mean BOTH sexes-and, no more circumcisions of males unless a court order is obtained. What is the problem with that? Drs and hospitals have been calling into get Judges' permission to give blood transfusions to a baby ,(in the case of Jehovah's Witnesses), for decades now-the same could be done in the case of male circumcision-make a flow of money there-

]]> By: texanmama http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-110212 texanmama Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:07:42 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-110212 Ask a man who, due to infection, has to be circumcised at 17 years old instead of at infancy. I have yet to hear a man complain that they got no joy from sex. However, these girls are being robbed of a LOT of future joy and happiness. If sex isn't fun it slowly grays the line of consent. So don't complain because you don't get crap stuck in your pee pee. Ask a man who, due to infection, has to be circumcised at 17 years old instead of at infancy. I have yet to hear a man complain that they got no joy from sex. However, these girls are being robbed of a LOT of future joy and happiness.

If sex isn’t fun it slowly grays the line of consent.

So don’t complain because you don’t get crap stuck in your pee pee.

]]> By: DodiaFae http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-102482 DodiaFae Wed, 19 May 2010 03:18:29 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-102482 <blockquote>Part of me wishes that we had a two minute nicking at the doctor instead of the entire painfully misogynist wedding tradition that persists in the name of tradition.</blockquote> OK, I haven't read all the comments yet, and I'm not sure if this has already been covered, but did she really compare <i>genital mutilation</i> to having a wedding? Seriously? I mean, yeah, the planning of my wedding was a HUGE pain in the ass, and it didn't go off without a hitch by any means. But I'd go through that a million times rather than have my clitoris "nicked". And I'd go through it a hundred billion times before I allowed my daughter to undergo genital mutilation. And, Wow... I'm with lindava. is this the feeling that a man gets when someone talks about lopping off his penis?

Part of me wishes that we had a two minute nicking at the doctor instead of the entire painfully misogynist wedding tradition that persists in the name of tradition.

OK, I haven't read all the comments yet, and I'm not sure if this has already been covered, but did she really compare genital mutilation to having a wedding? Seriously? I mean, yeah, the planning of my wedding was a HUGE pain in the ass, and it didn't go off without a hitch by any means. But I'd go through that a million times rather than have my clitoris "nicked". And I'd go through it a hundred billion times before I allowed my daughter to undergo genital mutilation.

And, Wow… I'm with lindava. is this the feeling that a man gets when someone talks about lopping off his penis?

]]> By: Anne Carr http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-99520 Anne Carr Thu, 13 May 2010 14:41:02 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-99520 There are life long repercussions from FGM. A website that has a good summary: <a href="http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/key-issues/fgm" target="_blank">www.forwarduk.org.uk/key-issues/fgm</a> There are life long repercussions from FGM. A website that has a good summary:
http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/key-issues/fgm

]]> By: lindava http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/05/08/out-female-genital-mutilation-in-female-genital-nicking-says-american-academy-of-pediatrics/#comment-99368 lindava Thu, 13 May 2010 07:31:19 +0000 http://www.newsrealblog.com/?p=52526#comment-99368 I'm trying to find a pithy comment in response to this outrage, and find that I am speechless...Plus, I can't get my legs to uncross! I'm trying to find a pithy comment in response to this outrage, and find that I am speechless…Plus, I can't get my legs to uncross!

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