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Nawal Nour, a Sudanese-American doctor who runs the African Women's Health Center at Brigham & Women's Hospital, which tracks the practice of FGM in the United States.
Nawal Nour, a Sudanese-American doctor who runs the African Women's Health Center at Brigham & Women's Hospital, which tracks the practice of FGM in the United States. (Globe Staff Photo / Wendy Maeda) Globe Staff Photo / Wendy Maeda

Rites and wrongs

Is outlawing female genital mutilation enough to stop it from happening here?

By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
February 11, 2007

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Last November, Khalid Adem, an Ethiopian immigrant living in Atlanta, received a 10-year prison sentence for cutting off the clitoris of his 2-year-old daughter. (He pleaded innocent, accusing the girl's mother, his ex-wife, of orchestrating the cutting.) The case, hailed as the first conviction for female genital mutilation (FGM) in the United States, has renewed attention to the practice a ... (Full article: 1558 words)

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