The special credence currently bestowed upon negative health outcome based arguments potentially marginalizes the women most affected by FGM. These medical arguments make health outcomes the most salient issue in discourses of FGM to the detriment of other possible considerations and assume a uniform experience of health and illness. Issues of culture and agency become subsumed under medical arguments. Additionally, basing discussions of FGM eradication on medical arguments requires specific specialized forms of knowledge and access to scientific studies. For this reason, international discussions of FGM eradication are often inaccessible to mutilated women in the developing world. And that is why we who know the pain and live it we educate our people on the ground though with no any financial support but we do what we can, we might not see the sudden eradication but one day this silent genocide will end!!
Ambassador Lucy S. Mashua, President of Mashua Voice for the Voiceless, International
Assisting and advocating for U.S. refugees and women’s rights
Global Ambassador for Ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Chairperson of the Worldwide Campaign Against FGM
Leading in lobbying for HR 5137: The Girl's Protection Act sponsored by Rep. Joseph Crowley and Rep. Mary Bono Mack.
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