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New controversy on FGM pits science against popular belief

Dr Tatu Kamau at Milimani Law Courts when she filed a case on FGM (Photo: George Njunge/Standard)

The debate on female genital mutilation (FGM) will reignite a decades’ long debate whether it is beneficial for women to undergo the cut.

Abhorred in the 1920s by the church and banned by the government in 2011, the cultural practice is again at the centre of a controversy between a medical doctor and the government. 

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