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Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Here's a bonus since you can't seem to get simple facta through your skull.

FGM is estimated to cause around 44.3k deaths of young girls annually

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10432559/

On the other hand:

Severe to catastrophic complications, including death, are so rare that they are reported only as individual case reports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision?wprov=sfla1

Which again, goes back to my fucking point that you're somehow too dense to understand.

The reason there's a greater concern over FGM, is because it actually has significantly higher rates of adverse effects, including death

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You have for some reason decided that I disagree with you, but I've not. I've only tried to point out the escape hatch for proponents of mutilation to argue for, and why the comment that you originally replied to is not "whataboutism."

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Bro just wants to be mad. This is Lemmy

[–] Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago

Go get some fresh air man