Parents may be wondering how little blood an infant can lose before collapse and death.

See here,

http://www.drmomma.org/2010/05/death-from-circumcision.html

Belly,
If you can find out any more about the NSW FGM case let me know. There was a news article about the dropped WA case a couple of weeks ago.

I don't know of any on line petition or similar, but would be interested.

to on the beach. you're still not getting my point. I don't dismiss the fact that there are deaths from both circumcision and F.G.M. there are always risks when anyone cuts into a human, male or female, especially if it is done outside of a hospital by the untrained. I'm talking about the ramifications to the victim when either procedure is done. The results of a successful circumcision are minor, the results of a successful F.G.M. however is to rob a female of being able to feel the full range of pleasure she is now forever denied. The male equivalent would be not just cutting off the foreskin but lopping off the head of the penis. I'm sorry if my lack of outrage over circumcision offends, but to my mind, needless deaths aside, fighting to end circumcision comes a distant second.

Turtletimtam I like that post.
Again thanks for the thread.
But too what a sorry lot we humans are, really!
Banjo supported by myself have waited for action on this matter.
Surely no one can say other than it is as you said in that post, savage cruelty to stop women enjoying sex.
*To control women*
We would put a hundred posts together in two days if this was about climate change/Labors faults/ we need the youth to drive action on this and so many dreadful things no human should have to face.
We must confront if this crime against humanity was about cruelty to animals, we would now be on page 25 of a huge thread.

Belly,
A day has past and no one has come forward with info about any online petition, so looks like it has not been thought of.

I cannot comprehend how someone could cut pieces off little girls, it is totally alien and repugnant to me. Just read a piece that said it takes about 20 minutes to do a type 111 FGM, and sew it up. Imagine that without any anesthesia. Lots of reports coming from UK and Nth Africa, summer is their cutting season. If we cannot stop FGM here there is no hope in other countries where it is so ingrained.

It seems apathy is the problem. I hope I am wrong but I reckon it will take a death or two before any real action is taken here.

Banjo well said, a problem is, for me at least my age.
I maybe you, did not have childhood computers .
I am not much good at starting polls in such threads.
But that may change with two others I am trying to kick start a community center.
IF we make it just maybe we can harness people power in such matters.
I mostly live in this section of OLO, know from time to time GY polls us.
Unsure he wants something deeper, but some one who has the skill could help out.
IF ONLY we could get 50.000 to sign it and send it to state and federal politicians and the media.
How hard would it be?
Some surf all day on double face book fussing about how the morning coffee tasted if only some one cared enough.