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| Netherlands: Doctor calls to allow light form of female circumcision | |
| 2008-05-28 | |
| Jannes Mulder, former internist and oncologist, writing in the Dutch medical journal Medisch Contact, says that girls are still being circumcises, even though the procedure is banned. The Dutch Council for Public Health estimates that at least 50 girls are circumcised every year, mostly in the Somali community.
His idea was immediately dismissed by Monica Van Berkum, head of Pharos, an information center about preventing and dealing with female circumcision. Van Berkum says that no compromise should be made regarding the integrity of a girl's body. Even a little prick give a completely wrong message, as if that's needed to make a girl fit. Sources: HLN, Medisch Contact (Dutch) | |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 there lies the problem, there are too many "little pricks" deciding what's best for women. At my work I see many of these "circumcisions", since getting many patients from Africa as refugees, how tragically these women are maimed and mutilated. These little pricks or monsters need to be punished if caught doing this practice to young girls. I wonder how many are killed by this practice being done in back rooms not in sterile conditions. |
| Posted by: Jan 2008-05-28 16:28 |
| #11 #10 I'd suggest he needs to be "pricked" in the general area first. With a dull scalpel coated with a Liberal amount of Clostridium Tetani. |
| Posted by: RD 2008-05-28 14:24 |
| #10 I'd suggest he needs to be "pricked" in the general area first. With a dull scalpel. How would you like that, "Nubby"? Wanker. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-28 12:36 |
| #9 But then the State would be seen as punishing Somalis for their cultural practices, and the liberals would go absolutely stark raving mad. 5,000 word articles about kind uncles in prison who just wanted to save their nieces from a lifetime of slavery to sexual desire...we are the true barbarians here...blah blah I'm sure you can think of the rest. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-05-28 12:25 |
| #8 Oncologist believes cliterus is an abnormal growth. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-05-28 12:20 |
| #7 Look at the lack of quality in the argument: banning the procedure doesn't work - tossed out there as a statement of fact. If the punishment for doing it is severe enough, it will stop. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-05-28 12:14 |
| #6 > Even a little prick give a completely wrong message, as if that's needed to make a girl fit. This sentence made my innuendo-meter go off the scale. I'm not even going to write something funny. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-05-28 10:19 |
| #5 Jannes Mulder needs a couple more circumcisions on himself. See how he likes it, "Stumpy" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-05-28 09:14 |
| #4 Leave it to a liberal to make (racist) excuses for a minority's inability to act like everyone else. There. Fixed it for ya, grom. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-05-28 08:35 |
| #3 former internist and oncologist. Sort of like Carter is a former President. Though the prefix ex- works better. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-28 07:13 |
| #2 "Circumcised"? I thought it was called female genital mutilation. Leave it to a liberal to make (racist) excuses for a minority's ability to act like everyone else. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-05-28 07:07 |
| #1 Stomp out the practice entirely, if it can even be done. It is barbaric. Probably related to arab pride and not wanting to touch his thingy to anything else that looks like another thingy. Guess who loses this one. Why don't they just cut the guys little head off instead? At least that kind of bleeding can be stopped if it gets out of hand. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-05-28 06:52 |