African church leaders oppose female genital mutilation in hospitals
International rights groups, churches, and activists are escalating campaigns against female genital mutilation now that girls are checking into hospitals to have the procedure.
In what is being referred to as the medicalization of FGM, doctors, nurses, and other health practitioners are secretly performing the procedures at the request of families.
“They are performing FGM for the money in hospitals and other places,” said Richard Nyangoto, a Roman Catholic priest in Kisii County, an area in Kenya’s southwest where FGM is widely practiced.
