Uganda Outlaws Genital Mutilitation

In an interesting twist of words, President Yoweri Museveni explainted that Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country’s eastern region.

“The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless,” President Yoweri Museveni told a gathering in the eastern Karamoja district.

“Now you people interfere with God’s work. Some say it is culture. Yes, I support culture but you must support culture that is useful and based on scientific information,” he added.

The argument that cultural mores aren’t sacroscant if they’re not ‘scientific’ is a welcome new twist in the balance between global human rights and interfering in another country’s cultural business.

Let me add, that I just followed extensive international information on female genital mutilation that is from 2002, and therefore I will not quote from it.

However, a quick Google search of genital mutilitation in America confirms my worst fear that genital mutilation may be growing in my country, as other nations move to eradicate it.

I will research this subject and report back. Genital mutilation is illegal in the US. But in a country that prides itself on not interfering in religious customs, we may not like the reality that is uncovered in my search. A