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Female genital mutilation seems like something that happens over there. Not in the United States. But in Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia.
That's not the case.
More than half a million girls now living in the U.S. are considered at risk for female genital mutilation. The procedure can range in severity from removing or cutting the clitoris — a sexual organ primarily responsible for female sexual pleasure — to sewing the vagina shut.