Petition Make all forms of non-medical genital mutilation of minors illegal

Any genital mutilation (GM) of boys and girls, even if they supposedly give consent, should be made illegal.

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GM for religious reasons is particularly heinous as it permanently marks the child as a member of a religion into which no child can be born only inculcated.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

24 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 24 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 8 February 2017
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