FGC in the united states

• CT House Gop, Rep. Klarides-Ditria, Advocates Call for End to FGM/C in Connecticut

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2025

• 19th News, Anti-trans policies aren’t preventing genital mutilation — they’re disrupting efforts to stop it
• Women’s eNews, No Safe Place for Women: Violence on Hospital Beds
• Baptist News, I was sworn to silence after female genital mutilation

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2024

• LA Times, Dozens of patients file suit against former OB-GYN and Cedars-Sinai, alleging misconduct
• AOL, Upgraded charges in child torture case 
• Equality Now, Implementing Survivor-Led FGM Law In Washington State
• KUOW, Coalition against female genital mutilation supports victims in Washington state

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2023

• Hartford Courant, Connecticut is 1 of 9 states without a ban on female genital mutilation. Thousands are at risk, activists say
• End FGM Network, Infographic: Women’s Health Needs Study (WHNS)

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2022

• Open Democracy, US bill equates healthcare for trans people with female genital mutilation

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2021

• Equality Now, Equality Now Fact Sheet: Female Genital Mutilation in the United States
• Reuters, U.S. toughens ban on ‘abhorrent’ female genital mutilation
• Religion News Service, Houston woman faces historic indictment over female genital cutting
• Ms. Magazine, Keeping Girls at the Center: Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation

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2020

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in Girls

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2019

• Global Citizen, Activists Launch the First Anti-FGM Network in the US
• Reuters, U.S. woman says strict Christian parents subjected her to FGM
• Springer Nature, Female Genital Cutting in Immigrant Children — Considerations in Treatment and Prevention in the United States
• Global Citizen, US House Votes to Recognize FGC as a Human Rights Violation
• The New York Times, 4 women with lives scarred by genital cutting: Could a surgeon heal them?
• Philanthropy Women, It’s All About Health for Women and Girls: Ghada Khan on Ending FGM
• Vice, We Know Female Genital Mutilation Has Been Happening in the US. How Do We Stop It?
• The Detroit News, Court declines House Democrats’ motion to intervene in Michigan genital mutilation case

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2018

• FiveThirtyEight, To Combat Female Genital Cutting in the U.S., We Need More Information
• Global Citizen, FGM in the US: The Hidden Crime Next Door
• FGM Legislation by State
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE leads efforts to prevent female genital mutilation at Newark Airport
• Detroit Free Press, Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case
• The Detroit News, Letters: Other views on FGM
• U.S. Department of Justice, Historical Overview of U.S. Policy and Legislative Responses to Honor-Based Violence, Forced Marriage, and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

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2017

• Daily Beast, New York Cracks down on Female Genital Mutilation
• Medium, The Tipping Point: Can the World End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• Fox News, Genital Mutilation also occurs in the US, activists call on states to make it illegal
• Click On Detroit, Metro Detroit doctor charged with performing female genital mutilation on young girls
• VOA, US Doctor Arrested in Michigan on FGM Charges
• The Hill, Michigan case shows more needs to be done to confront female genital mutilation
• United States Attorney’s Office, Detroit Doctor and Wife Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Perform Female Genital Mutilation 
• Detroit Free Press, Genital Mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’
• Mother Jones, I Underwent Genital Mutilation as a Child -Right Here in the United States 
• Slate, Female Genital Mutilation Isn’t a Muslim Issue. It’s a Medical Issue
• Vice, The Female Genital Mutilation Scandal Tearing a Community Apart
• The New York Times, Michigan Case Adds U.S. Dimension to Debate on Genital Mutilation
• Detroit Free Press, Genital Cutting Victims Get Backlash for Condemning Taboo Ritual
• Cracked, It Happens Here: The Reality of Female Genital Mutilation
• PBS News, First-ever federal charges of female genital mutilation seen as landmark
• Wall Street Journal, Cutting Young Girls Isn’t Religious Freedom
• The Detroit News, House Increases penalty for female genital mutilation

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2016 

• The Guardian, Genital mutilation risk triples for girls and women in US, CDC study finds
• ABC News, Underground: American Who Underwent Female Genital Mutilation Comes Forward to Help Others
• The Washington Post, With 500,000 female genital mutilation survivors at risk in the U.S., it’s not just someone’s else’s problem
• Equality Now, 2016 Violence Against Girls Summit on FGM/C

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2015

• ABC News, Underground in America: Female Genital Mutilation

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2014

• Huffpost, Bill Maher Doesn’t Know That FGM Is on the Rise in the West