A 14 year old girl in Sierra Leone was sent off to get a crude operation done called female genital mutilation (FGM) upon the order of her parents. She met an old gypsy woman in a field with only one blood stained rock in it. Her mother and some other female friends of the family positioned her on top of the rock. Meanwhile, the circumciser, the gypsy, cleaned the broken razor blade with her saliva that she would soon use to cut off the girl?s clitoris, labia minor, and most of her labia major. Minutes after the cutting began; the girl passed out because of the monumental pain. She never again woke. (World Health Organization) That girl, who had her whole life ahead of her, died later that day from the immense loss of blood caused by
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