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Posted March 21. 2018 5:22PM

Republicans push to protect NH girls and women from genital mutilation

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The bill’s aim is simple, to criminalize FGM at the state level in New Hampshire. There are over 500,000 girls and women in the United States who are at risk for or who “had been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in 2012,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three doctors were recently arrested in Detroit for performing FGM on an estimated 100 little girls.


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