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Religion News Service<\/em><\/p>\n

Fredrick Nzwili<\/p>\n

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) International rights groups, churches and activists are escalating campaigns against female genital mutilation now that a new practice has emerged in which girls are checking into hospitals to have the procedure.<\/p>\n

In what being referred to as the medicalization of FGM, doctors, nurses and other health practitioners are secretly performing the procedures at the request of families.<\/p>\n

“Like abortion, they are performing FGM for the money in hospitals and other places,” said the Rev. Richard Nyangoto, a Roman Catholic priest in Kisii County, an area in the country’s southwest where FGM is widely practiced.<\/p>\n

“Taking it to hospital does not make it right,” added Nyangoto. “It’s evil.”<\/p>\n

Health care providers now perform up to 18 percent of FGM cases and the trend is growing, according to the World Health Organization. . . [Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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