AAP throws children under the Dhiimi bus!!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/intact-america-blasts-american-academy-of-pediatrics-call-to-weaken-us-ban-on-all-forms-of-female-genital-cutting-as-outrageous-and-unethical-92987489.htmlexcerpt
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The founder and director of Intact America, which has been campaigning to change the way America thinks about male circumcision, today blasted the American Academy of Pediatrics' call to legalize a form of female genital cutting, a practice outlawed in this country as a type of genital mutilation linked to oppression of girls and women.
"We believe in the human rights of all babies to intact bodies, but have been focused on male circumcision because we believed the horror of female genital mutilation had been outlawed forever in the United States," said Georganne Chapin. "For this trade association of doctors to call for allowing a form of female genital cutting at the same time they are pushing to recommend for the first time in favor of neonatal male circumcision is outrageous, unethical and indefensible."
The AAP report – which urged changes to allow a "ritual nick" of girls' genitals so families don't send their daughters overseas for a full genital cutting – came out the same day that two congressmembers – Democrat Joseph Crowley of New York and Republican Mary Bono of California – introduced legislation (The Girls Protection Act, H.R. 5137) that would make it illegal to transport a minor girl living in the United States out of the country for the purpose of female genital mutilation.
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