Salon.com (Broadsheet): Uganda to outlaw female genital mutilation, by Lynn Harris:
Let’s make sure this one doesn’t get lost in this week’s Palin/Jackson shuffle: Uganda has moved to outlaw female genital mutilation.
“God knew what he was doing when he created us. Do you think you are more intelligent than God?” President Yoweri Museveni asked the crowd at a recent event launching a campaign against the practice, Uganda’s New Vision reported. “There is no part of the human body that is useless.”
The president also dismissed any defense of FGM as a “cultural” practice, calling it dangerous not only to women but also to the babies they may later have trouble bearing. According to the Guardian, he also “pledged to help provide an alternative source of income for women who earn a living circumcising girls.”