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Disturbing Demands for Male Mutilation

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Saturday August 23, 2003 21:51author by Sean Keegan

Where Will It All End ?

Anyone who believes in equality between the sexes will be perturbed at the current demands by immigrants and asylum seekers from certain countries to have access to free circumcisions for their sons. Most of us oppose female circumcision. How could it be right for the state to outlaw mutilation of baby girls but pay for the mutilation of baby boys ?
Or should we agree to pay for female circumcision also, since it is part of the "culture" of some groups which are settling our country ?

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