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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Law and Christianity (sort of)
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> Does anyone know what reasons (excuses) such societies state for their
> practice of clitorectomy?  I doubt that they actually claim that they do
> it in order to reduce the girl's future pleasure.  In the U.S., large
> numbers of unnecessary hysterectomies have been performed under the name
> of "health".  I'm always interested in how people justify their behavior.
> -- 
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
> aka Swazoo Koolak

 	I am told that there was an article in "Ms." last year sometime,
by a Eqyptian doctor who herself suffered a clitorectomy as a girl. This
and the responding letters which confirm the practice are supposedly 
very interesting. If anyone can find these and summarize for the net, it
would be greatly appreciated.

jcpatilla

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jcpatilla


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