Unforgettable event of female circumcision
I was told about this event, which was a regrettable one.
It was four years ago, if I'm not mistaken. I traveled home for a ceremony, and when I asked about a neighbour, actually a family of three: the man, his wife, and their boy of about six years old, I was told that they had relocated to their village after a tragic event. The wife had given birth to a baby girl, and they went ahead to circumcise the baby girl. During the process, there was excessive bleeding. The child survived the pain for just a day, and the following day, she gave up the ghost.
You needed to see how loudly I screamed “Jesus!” when I heard about it. I couldn't believe my ears. A child who had already been given birth to, in good condition, was left to die all in the name of circumcision. And it's this same female circumcision that the world is preaching against. The incident slapped me so hard that I wished I had the power to jail both the parents and the person who carried out the circumcision.
When I asked my parents what happened to the parents or the person who performed the circumcision that led to the excessive bleeding, they said nothing happened to them. In fact, just a few people questioned them, and after a month or two, they decided to pack up and relocate to their village to live. My parents, due to the fact that they circumcised all of us (their children) because they gave birth to us in the early days when the “say no to circumcision” campaign had not yet become a trend, didn’t have much to say or express strong anger over what the parents of the baby girl did.
They only blamed the circumciser, saying he didn't do it well, which was why it led to excessive bleeding and ended the life of the child.
This occurrence opened my eyes even more to accept the movement against female circumcision. Apart from the knowledge that circumcision reduces the female urge for sex and other disadvantageous outcomes, it is simply unthinkable for a girl child to go through such pain, especially when it is not medically ideal.
Maybe this is still welcomed in some other countries and regions, but I don’t see it as a necessary practice, especially when imagining the pain and the risk the girl child will have to endure.
Thank goodness for this modern era, because I can't imagine, when I start having children, allowing my baby girl to go through such pain.
Thank You!
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It's a very unfortunate incident and it's saddening to comprehend that such a situation exists inspite of the campaign against circumcision of the female child.
I make this comment with so much outrage.
I must confess that female circumcision is really bad and such tradition should be abolished. It's really causing so much harm than good to the females, I can remember very well a young lady that's suffering since her childhood till date. Because of female circumcision and I was also told that if it has to be done on girl then it shouldn't be agued it should a unanimous decision, this girl is currently suffering from urinating, whenever she urinates she feel so much discomfort that siting or lying on the bed feels like a succide mission to her and her parents have been trying to treat it since it started but nothing good has been coming out of it till date 😭 omo they should stop that practice honestly.
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Female circumcision is something that should actually not be practiced. It's very dangerous and now they killed an innocent girl for it. That's so sad.
Female circumcision is something that should actually not be practiced. It's very dangerous and now they killed an innocent girl for it. That's so sad.