Please review the two short video clips, the two slide PowerPoint presentation, and the brief webmd description of vaginoplasty and Labiaplasty below. The PP describes the various types/classifications of female alteration as well as the negative impacts of the practice listed by The World Health Organization (WHO). The first video is an interview with Fuambai Ahmadu an anthropologist who elected to undergo the type one A procedure as an adult. The interview was conducted by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and is definitely combative at points, but she more or less is able to get her point across. The second is a much more nuanced interview with Dr. Ahmadu and activist Nimco Ali on HARDtalk. After reviewing the PP, watching the videos and reviewing what you textbook has to say about male circumcision in chapter 4, consider the following questions in a reflection of at least one typed double spaced page. I am primarily asking these questions in the context of the type one A classification given that the vast majority of the instances of female cutting fall into this category, but feel free to address your thoughts about other versions of the procedure as well.
1. Is this a “valid” cultural practice or a human rights violation? Why do you think/feel the way that you do? Who should decide whether or not this is a valid practice?
2. Are you thoughts about female alteration the same or different from your thoughts about male alteration (circumcision)? If you see them differently, why? If you view them similarly, why? keep in mind that most circumcisions are also performed with little or no anesthesia and typically involve pain and sometimes (though less frequently) result in complications as well.
3. Most women who elect to have this procedure done on their daughters are doing so to have their daughters conform to norms/standards of beauty within their culture/communities. What are your thoughts about the alterations that The WHO condemns versus labiaplasty and vaginoplasty which are completely legal? Are there similarities between them? Are they not comparable at all?
4. FGA/FGM/FGA is now illegal in most of the countries where it is practiced and yet criminalizing the practice seems to have done very little to decrease occurrence rates. If you believe that this is a practice that should not continue, do you have any thoughts about ways to decrease it since criminalization does not seem to work?
the videos to watch are on youtube called HARDtalk Female Genital Mutilation Discussionand Advocate female genital Mutilation and look up information about what say about male circumcision to answer the questions
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