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Kenyan female doctor wants FGM legalised

Amon Katungulu by Amon Katungulu
October 27, 2019
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Kenyan female doctor wants FGM legalised

A female doctor in Kenya wants female genital mutilation to be decriminalized.

Tatu Kamau is asking Kenya’s courts to allow women above the age of 18 to be able to practice female genital mutilation (FGM), saying they have a right to choose what they do to their bodies at that age.

She wants the Kenyan government to annul the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2011 and the board set up to enforce the law disbanded.

FGM is widely condemned in the country and across parts of Africa but Kamau argues in a 2017 petition filed against the government, that it is an age-old Kenyan tradition and that an outright ban infringes on a woman’s right to exercise her cultural beliefs.

Kamau is representing herself in the case before the Nairobi High Court.

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She told judges on Thursday that the term mutilation is “offensive” and denigrates the cultural significance of the practice.

“Women who took their daughters for circumcision were not taking them there to destroy them. Those children were not thrown away afterward, they were celebrated as respected members of the society. To use the word in our context suggests that it is malicious and that we are intentionally damaging our females. To me, it is very wrong,” Kamau said.

She is pushing for medical workers and “certified” traditional cutters to be allowed to circumcise women.

“We could have had limitations of where you can do it, when, who can do it for you and how …Those things could have been controlled … such that you have certain months of the year and that is the only time you can do and it can only be done by certain professionals, those are the only people who are allowed to do it,” Kamau said.

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