According to the United Nations, three million girls a year are subjected to genital mutilation. For the average girl, there is no use of anaesthetic or sterilized instruments. The damage done is irreversible.
(See: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sudan/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=1015&sID=24
and
http://www.stopmgfe.org/client/sheet.aspx?root=318&sheet=1435&lang=en-US )
Lord, may your creation be respected and honoured. May all people understand that every part of a girl's body is created good and clean, and for a purpose which you have designed.
Father, I pray that you would empower the women of countries and cultures where FGM is practised to gain respect for their own bodies, to organise themselves to advocate for their sisters and daughters to be protected from this brutal violation and to change hearts and minds so that both laws ands customs hold this practice as wholly unacceptable.
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