2009-03-16 Fox News - Britain Offers Free Operation to Reverse Female Circumcisions

[admin]

The UK NHS is willing to help FGM victims with a procedure which liberates the surviving parts of the clitoris.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509391,00.html

Britain Offers Free Operation to Reverse Female Circumcisions
Monday, March 16, 2009

The National Health Sserice will advertise free operations to reverse
female circumcisions, with experts warning that each year more than 500
British girls have their genitals mutilated.

Despite having been outlawed in 1985, female circumcision is still
practiced in British African communities, in some cases on girls as young
as 5. Police have been unable to bring a single prosecution even though
they suspect that community elders are being flown from the Horn of Africa
to carry out the procedures.

The advertisement will appear from next month on a Somali satellite TV
station much viewed in Britain. It features Juliet Albert, a midwife who
does the reverse operations, and promises, in English and Somali,
confidentiality for victims of female genital mutilation.

The advertisement was expected to help to undermine demand for girls to be
circumcised, and to popularize the reversal procedure, Albert said.
Thousands of such operations have been carried out at specialist clinics
and hospitals around Britain and demand is growing slowly.

Female circumcision, which is done for various reasons, such as religious
and cultural traditions, can cause severe health complications including
infections and psychological problems. The procedure, predominantly
carried out on girls aged between 5 and 12, can range from the removal of
the clitoris to the removal of all the exterior parts of the vagina, which
is then sewn up.

[z726]

The advertisement was expected to help to undermine demand for girls to be
circumcised, and to popularize the reversal procedure

This is a common intention among those of us who work to spread the word about foreskin restoration. In addition to helping men who might want to do this, we also are educating people who might otherwise have their boys circumcised.

A big difference is that we're trying to reach people in our own culture, whereas they're trying to reach immigrant cultures. Not only do those people have strong ties to their own cultural beliefs and practices, but some of those responsible probably aren't listening or aren't even in the country and wouldn't get the message.

[Joseph]

The UK NHS is willing to help FGM victims with a procedure which liberates the surviving parts of the clitoris.

It also wittingly or unwittingly PAYS for male circ.

NORM-UK better get on this as well!!!

[z726]

As far as I know, the NHS doesn't fund male circumcision.

[Joseph]

I can't find the links to it, but doctors were using NHS to pay for male circ.

Apparently the NHS wasn't "aware" of this, and when interviewed, they gave run-around explanations.

I think there's even a thread on here?

At any rate, NORM-UK should aim for something similar to the FGM restorations.

Also, the UK gov't should get tough on FGM. I'd say families should be threatened with deportations back to Africa or whatever country for a start.