Rudd: Genital mutilation a 'modern-day tragedy'

Female circumcision, otherwise known as genital mutilation, is practiced on girls in a number of countries.  (All of which are Muslim countries)
"Genital mutilation is a modern-day human tragedy; it's very broad spread," he laments. "Three-million girls each year undergo this mutilation, and there [are] probably 130-million adult women who have undergone the procedure. And we know from the medical consequences, they are extreme -- from psychological consequences to death."  There is "significant suffering" that goes along with this.  The idea behind the operation is to destroy a woman's ability to experience pleasure in intimacy.
With immigration to America, the practice is occurring in the United States. The American Academy of Pediatrics is seeking legal permission to perform a ceremonial "nick" on the genitalia of Muslim baby girls, because the practice is currently illegal in the U.S.
Islam working its way into the medical practices.   With the government takeover of health care, this is just the beginning.