More than 500,000 in U.S. could be at risk of female genital mutilation

[n2doc]

Nearly 507,000 women and girls in the United States could be at risk of female genital excision, including 57,000 in California, a new study has found.

That is more than twice the number that were thought to be at risk in 2000, the last year for which estimates are available.

Analysts at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, attributed the preliminary findings released Friday to an increase in immigration from countries where the practice is common, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Somalia.


It is unclear how many families continue the practice after moving to the U.S., but community activists say there is anecdotal evidence of girls being sent back to their parents’ home countries for “vacation cutting” and of traditional cutters traveling to the U.S. to circumcise girls in this country.

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-female-genital-excision-20150206-story.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. About the same number of children "at risk" of severe physical problems due to anti-vaxxers, then?

Calculated by also using unclear and completely unscientific speculation, of course.

[n2doc]

2. Better to overestimate than to ignore the problem

Who are you to call something 'unscientific'? Do you work in the field?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Better to have actual social research than to speculate and smear entire nationalities, is all I am implying.

Your source is questionable. They have a video on the site that reads:

"Faith and Families for a Healthier Kenya" is an ENGAGE multimedia presentation that portrays why family planning is consistent with religious values."

Cough........

The UN has a whole actual agency that studies these things...independent and all the donors are known and not hidden.