This week for the classroom interviews we were asking our interviewee (in a discussion type of interview) whether or not circumcision of men and women is a civil rights issue. During the discussion we talked about the book and also about the story of the young woman who was circumcised herself against her own wishes. While having this discussion interview the interviewee that I was talking to felt that circumcision of females was in fact a civil rights issue, due to the fact that there is no health benefit for the woman to be circumcised. However, circumcision of men was not a civil rights issue because the interviewee felt that it was done for a health concern. Furthermore, the discussion was brought up of the time in which the circumcisions take place on the female and the fact that it is done later in life. The interviewee felt that this was a problem because it causes a lot of problems. The interviewee further felt that while there are cultures who feel this is part of their culture, the interviewee could not understand how that could be used as a reason that they could do circumcisions on women.
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