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Michigan Doctor Charged With Performing Female Genital Mutilation On Girls

The Department of Justice says it believes this is the first case brought under a federal law that criminalizes the practice, which is widely condemned as a human rights violation.

A Michigan emergency room doctor has been charged with performing female genital mutilation on multiple girls of about the age of seven.

it believes this is the first case brought that criminalizes the practice, which is widely condemned as both harmful to the physical and mental health of women and girls and a violation of their

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