Female Circumcision Should Be Banned

Westerners should not attempt to eradicate female circumcision in the countries where it is practiced. Female Circumcision has almost no benefits medically, but socially, economically, and culturally circumcision can benefit a female’s life. Although circumcision holds no medical ground for health benefits, a woman’s life will be changed in a drastic circumstance in the countries where it is practiced if she does not have the procedure done. Where a circumcised woman has a better chance to find a husband with money and land, or be viewed as possible for childbirth in a social context, her life will be greatly improved economically and socially. Westerners do not understand the cultures where this is practiced and it seems inhumane and performed by uneducated

Although female circumcision must be ended as it was outlawed in Sudan, the people will still practice the operation without medical help which would cause more harm or even death to more women. Education must be pushed about the superstition behind circumcision in schools and communities and even allowing for a medical operation law if the society does practice it. Sunna Circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood and labia minor) is the most humane of all three of the practices, but still medically irrelevant for health and cleanliness, should be allowed into the medical community for the benefit and safety of young women who are going to have the procedure done anyways. This procedure in the U.S. is called a Hoodectomy and is performed if doctors find it necessary. But both Clitorectomy and Pharaonic Circumcision (very inhumane and should be educated within communities) should be allowed into the medical community only if the procedure will be done without medical help anyways, to help women from infections, complications, or