Against legalising female ‘circumcision’ of minors: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder

Defenders of male circumcision increasingly argue that female ‘circumcision’ (cutting the clitoral hood or labia) should be legally allowed in Western liberal democracies even when non-consensual. In his target article, Richard Shweder (2022) gives perhaps most persuasive articulation this argument to have so far appeared literature. my own work, I no person subjected medically unnecessary genital cutting any kind without their informed consent, regardless sex characteristics with which they were born religious cultural background parents. Professor and agree law policy on child is currently beset cultural, sex-based double standards. We disagree about what done this. commentary, ‘legalising’ childhood FGC as bring it into line current treatment MGC not an acceptable solution these problems. Instead, all non-consenting persons opposed moral legal grounds discouraged by appropriate means.