Female Genital Mutilation

Condemnation May Be Driving Circumcised Women from Health Care

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 18th, 1997

American physicians are right to condemn the practice of female circumcision, but researchers say that physicians' condemnation of the practice may have the unintended effect of driving circumcised women away from the health care they need.

Carol R. Horowitz, MD, of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and J. Carey Jackson, MD, of the University of Washington, write in the August 1997 Journal of General Internal Medicine that "Although there is ample media and political attention to this volatile issue, there is a relative dearth of practical, clinical information available to providers" on how they should treat circumcised women.

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-08-18)

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