Horrific Taboo: Female Circumcision on the Rise in U.S.

When Marie was two years old, a woman in her village in Africa cut off her clitoris and labia. Now 34 and living thousands of miles away in New York, she is still suffering.

“I have so many problems, with my husband, with sex, with childbirth,” she told NBC News, withholding her real name to protect her identity. “The consequences on my life are all negative, both physically and psychologically."

The practice of Female Genital Mutilation is common across much of Africa, where it is believed to ensure sexual purity before marriage. But Marie says FGM is also “very common” in some communities in America ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 150,000 to 200,000 girls in the U.S. are at risk of being forced to undergo cutting. The CDC says “at risk” because there are no actual records of the practice, only estimates ...

Immigration to the U.S. from countries in Africa quadrupled between 1990 and 2011 from 360,000 to 1.6 million according to a recent report released by New York City’s planning department ...

In Phoenix, Arizona, a staggering 98 percent of Somali women being treated at the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic have been circumcised ...

CAIRCO Research

Definitions and description:

Clitoridectomy: excision of the clitoris; female circumcision. (New Oxford American Dictionary).

Clitoridectomy: "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons." -  "New study shows female genital mutilation exposes women and babies to significant risk at childbirth" (Press release). World Health Organization. June 2, 2006.

Clitoridectomy and Infibulation, Virginia Lee Barnes-Dean, Cultural Survival, Summer, 1985

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Refugee resettlement programs often take advantage of unsuspecting local communities. Refugee Resettlement Watch monitors resettlement of foreign nationals / communities / tribes forced upon American communities.

See The Social Contract Summer, 2013 issue: Resettlement Racket for many pertinent articles on refugee resettlement forced upon American communities, including: