WOMEN’S HEALTH: US doctors tiptoe around female genital mutilation*

I am going to be really brave and say it: all cultures are not equal. There, I have said it. And if some equal opportunity activist wants to report me to the Australian Human Rights Commission, go ahead.I’ll start with my own country of birth first. In India, prior to British conquest, Hindus had the quaint custom of burning widows alive on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands; the practice was known as suttee.In the 1840s, British army General Charles Napier enforced a ban on suttee, and a …

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