Re: Gynecologist Accused of Mutilating, Abusing Hundreds of Women

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:05:10 -0500, Bart Bailey wrote
(in article <47c5a2ae.373737@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In Message-ID:<0001HW.C3EAECDB03B583C5F0182648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted
on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:32:58 GMT, Amy Guskin wrote: Begin

Reeves' crimes include removing a woman's external genitalia, _maliciously_
and _unnecessarily_, and without her permission. And apparently other
patients, many other patients, have now come forward with horror stories,
too.

If the 'pride' merely involved removal of the clitoral hood, there would
likely be a lesser, but nonetheless some, degree of outrage as is
generated by the barbaric bris practice, but this clitoridectomy thing
is more comparable to a total penectomy, and as such, is never
acceptable for involuntary or non-medical reasons. <<

Even if you're rabidly anti-circumcision, you simply can't compare an adult
woman having even just the ciltoral hood removed against her will by a crazy
person to a parent having an infant circumcised at their request. Sorry, it
just ain't the same thing.

Amy
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