Female Circumcision Essay

Female circumcision is a common practice in parts of Africa, this is done to African girls at a very young age because it is suppose to assure everyone that every girl who gets mutilated will remain a virgin until the day she marries. This is also suppose to assure everyone that when a girl marries she will not cheat on her husband and will be a good wife. This violates womens rights on so many levels, it is dangerous, it is unfair, it is just torture. This ritual can have so many complications during the procedure which most of the time is not done which medical equipment or even sterilized knives. This could even have many complications years after its been done to a girl. It shows that in a lot of parts of the world have traditions that
The parents of a newborn make need to make a decision to have the baby circumcised or not based on their religion or on personal hygiene or because they grew up hearing that all boys should be circumscised. Most of the male circumcisions takes place in a hospital, done by a doctor, some take place at home with a Jewish Rabi, this is seen normal by most people in the United states, but if this was done to a new born baby girl this would be looked at as abuse. Some other countries such as Africa might look at this common American practice as human rights violation because we are mutilating the male, and since they circumsise females, this might be very strange to them, just like it is strange for us to see what they do in other parts of the world. Male circumcision can also have many complications, but not as many as the female. When a female has been circumcised she could have lots of problems while trying to deliver a baby and one or both could die. A male that has been circumcised could have problems because the skin did not grow as it should have and it might have a deformed penis and could affect this person physically and