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On March 2, 2010, the Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts legislature held a public hearing on the "Massachusetts State Prohibition of Genital Mutilation Act". Laurie Evans, the Jewish director of New York's National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), told the Committee that under Jewish law, the son of a Jewish mother is Jewish, whether circumcised or not, and that despite great pressure she had kept her son intact.
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The quiet-verseloud-chorus conceit long preceded it of course, and, Lord knows, hardened into eye-rolling alt-rock cliché in its wake, but to witness "Tame" in person, to hear frontman Black Francis abruptly lurch from softly purring menacing niceties ("Got hips like Cinderella") to howling the feral chorus ("TAAAAAAAMMMMME!!!!") with the horrific vivacity of Chernobog himself, is to achieve nirvana. [...] first the songs not quite good enough to make the album. [...] to the rapt Hammerstein crowd's mild bewilderment, we begin with a four-song suite of Doolittle-eta oddities, built from the same unstable compounds as the more celebrated tracks: shrill and stoic guitars squalls from Joey Santiago, a hint of stoned surfer swing from drummer Dave Lovering, bassist Deal's effervescent bou...
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EQUALITY NOW CALLS ON AAP TO REVOKE ELEMENTS OF ITS 2010 POLICY STATEMENT THAT ENDORSES PEDIATRICIANS' "NICKING" OF GIRLS' GENITALIA NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International human rights organization Equality Now is stunned by a new policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which essentially promotes female genital mutilation (FGM) and advocates for "federal and state laws [to] enable pediatricians to reach out to families by offering a 'ritual nick'," such as pricking or minor incisions of girls' clitorises. The Policy Statement "Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors", issued by the AAP on April 26, 2010, is a significant set-back to the Academy's own prior statements on the issue of FGM and is antithetical to decades of noteworthy advanceme...
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One of the former excisers wrote a song, "I Abandon," which we have turned into a new music video. This will be played on Malian and West African TV many times. Eighteen of the ex-excisers who have stopped as a result of our campaign took part in the production. It starts out with the main exciser unable to sleep, thinking of the cries of the girls. She and her husband call a big meeting of other excisers and they all decide to stop. They dance and throw their knives and razor blades in a big hole which is filled in, and then we see a few of them doing new jobs with big smiles on their faces. We list the names of the ex-excisers who appear in the video. It wasn't long ago that it was practically impossible to get anything on TV about female genital mutilation (FGM) and now it is quite o...
