Circumsized Girls Statistics, Holy Cow!
August 15th, 2008 by Leonard Birdsong
Birdsong has lived in Africa. Birdsong has represented many people seeking asylum in the United States. Birdsong now teaches his immigration law students that the fear of female circumcision, often referred to as “female genital mutilation,” is a ground upon which women can obtain asylum in the United States.
Until today Birdsong did not know the number of women subjected to female gential mutilation (FGM). The Associated Press reports on August 4, 2008, that “Seventy million girls and women
