The Concerns of Continuing Female Genital Mutilation Practices

The article, "In Africa, FGM Checks into Hospitals," journalist Fredrick Nwzili writes about the concerns of continuing female genital mutilation practices. According to Nwzili, "now that some traditional practitioners have disavowed it, many doctors and nurses are taking up the illegal practice" (Nwzili). Apparently, some of the old traditional doctors discontinued female genital mutilation and also, another assumption for the increase in illegal practices of doctors performing the surgery, is the shift from rural to urban areas. …