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US toughens ban on ‘abhorrent’ female genital mutilation
January 08, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: The US bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services tweeted that the new law “increases criminal penalties for performing female genital mutilation on minors & expands the scope of punishable offenses in the US.”
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