Tag: female genital mutilation

Joanna Vergoth boarded a plane from New York to Kentucky to meet with a survivor of female genital mutilation and promote legislation to make the practice of genital mutilation illegal on May 6.

Female genital mutilation, a procedure that cuts young girls’ genitalia for social, cultural and religious reasons, has been banned in the United States for more than 20 years – until a recent ruling from a federal judge in Michigan.

Powerful speaker and theologian Mercy Oduyoye addressed AIDS cultural concerns in her lecture last week to a small crowd of people in the University of La Verne community concerned with this growing pandemic.