(Alabama Political Reporter) Survivors of female genital mutilation are speaking out about the scars they carry from female genital mutilation to urge U.S. lawmakers to help put an end to the practice.
35 states have implemented legislation to criminalize female genital mutilation (FGM). However, Alabama is among the remaining 15 states to have no laws criminalizing the practice.
Female genital mutilation … is defined as a procedure to “remove, cut, circumcise, excise, mutilate, infibulate or reinfibulate” any part of the genitals for non-medical purposes on females under the age of 19.
Khatija “Kadi” Doumbia, one of millions of women who [were] subjected to the practice of FGM, has been able to tell several state legislators the story of how she was cut at 5 years old in her home country of Mali in West Africa.
