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CDC: 200,000 Girls at Risk of FGM in US
March 30, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
This is what Ted Kennedy has given us.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 150,000 to 200,000 girls in the U.S. are at risk of being forced to undergo cutting. The CDC says at risk because there are no actual records of the practice, only estimates and old estimates at that. Its latest data date to 1997, the year after it was banned in the U.S.
But experts who work with victims and their communities say FGM is on the rise.
Immigration to the U.S. from countries in Africa quadrupled between 1990 and 2011 from 360,000 to 1.6 million according to a recent report released by New York Citys planning department.
And the more it rises, the more FGM and fatal exorcisms and honor killings there will be. The examples from the UK are glaringly clear.
Support for victims is also comparatively poor in the U.S., health workers say. Nour in Boston and Johnson in Arizona run the only two clinics dedicated to supporting FGM victims in the U.S.
Comparatively the U.K. with only a fifth of the population of the U.S. has 15 specialist clinics. British midwife Comfort Momoh, who runs one such operation, recently visited the U.S. to research American facilities.
Coming from Europe, where campaigners are making strides in turning FGM into a mainstream issue, Momoh was shocked to see no proper coordination and hardly anywhere for girls to go for support, she said. The situation is well, well behind the U.K.
And once we go full UK with a hotline and clinics and special laws, what then?
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CDC: 200,000 Girls at Risk of FGM in US | FrontPage Magazine
CDC: 200,000 Girls at Risk of FGM in US
March 30, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
This is what Ted Kennedy has given us.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 150,000 to 200,000 girls in the U.S. are at risk of being forced to undergo cutting. The CDC says at risk because there are no actual records of the practice, only estimates and old estimates at that. Its latest data date to 1997, the year after it was banned in the U.S.
But experts who work with victims and their communities say FGM is on the rise.
Immigration to the U.S. from countries in Africa quadrupled between 1990 and 2011 from 360,000 to 1.6 million according to a recent report released by New York Citys planning department.
And the more it rises, the more FGM and fatal exorcisms and honor killings there will be. The examples from the UK are glaringly clear.
Support for victims is also comparatively poor in the U.S., health workers say. Nour in Boston and Johnson in Arizona run the only two clinics dedicated to supporting FGM victims in the U.S.
Comparatively the U.K. with only a fifth of the population of the U.S. has 15 specialist clinics. British midwife Comfort Momoh, who runs one such operation, recently visited the U.S. to research American facilities.
Coming from Europe, where campaigners are making strides in turning FGM into a mainstream issue, Momoh was shocked to see no proper coordination and hardly anywhere for girls to go for support, she said. The situation is well, well behind the U.K.
And once we go full UK with a hotline and clinics and special laws, what then?
...
CDC: 200,000 Girls at Risk of FGM in US | FrontPage Magazine
