1.   Although the new government has outlawed female genital cutting, it is still widely practiced.

2.   And genital cutting is the portal she must walk through to enter it.

3.   And he was determined to protect her from genital cutting.

4.   And if they ever have daughters, he vows he will send them out of the country to protect them from genital cutting.

5.   And there has been a shift toward a less severe form of genital cutting.

6.   Activists have worked successfully to outlaw female genital cutting in much of Europe.

7.   After a few beatings, she also agreed to become a Muslim and later underwent the genital cutting that is widespread among Sudanese Muslims.

8.   But in her community at least, female genital cutting explicitly was meant to destroy sexual sensation, and she thinks the rite should be abolished.

9.   But the genital cutting of teen-age girls is a practice that has caused controversy here.

10.   Congress outlawed the rite of female genital cutting in the United States just before it recessed two weeks ago.