Link about female circ and insurance?

[nini02]

Does anyone happen to have a link that documents female circ being covered by insurance as late as a couple decades ago? I swear I had read that but I can't find it now....

Thanks!!

[Fi.]

http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/circdwmn.html



http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=1&gl=ca

Clitoridectomy means the partial or total removal of the external part of the clitoris. It was sometimes practiced in English-speaking nations well after the first half of the Twentieth Century, ostensibly to stop masturbation. . Blue Cross Blue Shield paid for clitoridectomies in the U.S.A. until May 18, 1977 . Clitoridectomy is still being practiced in isolated instances. It is, however, quite common in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, east-Africa, Egypt, Sudan, and the Arabian Peninsula.

http://www.boystoo.com/insurance.htm
The legal aspects of circumcision are just beginning to be explored as they are with the female genital operations of circumcision, clitoridectomy and infibulation, common in many parts of the world and re-occurring in the US and Canada because of new African immigrations. Even as late as 1977 some Blue Cross plans covered clitoridectomies according to Constance A. Bean, coordinator of health education at MIT and author of Methods of Childbirth (p.227).

http://consciouswoman.org/2008/05/08...onth-may-2008/
Patricia’s book The Rape of Innocence — One Woman’s Story of Female Genital Mutilation in the USA (2006) dropped a bomb. Few knew that until 1977 Blue Cross Blue Shield covered clitoridectomies. Clitoridectomy used to be big business in the USA… then it was episiotomy and now hysterectomy and Cesarean sections. “America has its own forms of female genital mutilation”, she says.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...G=Search&meta=

[tlh]

I have been searching for how many girls were circumcised in the US during the time it was legal.It's easy to find how many boys were but the records for girls seem non-existant.This is all I have found so far

No female circumcision has been performed in U.S. hospitals since 1991 when 8 surgeries were performed. It is illegal to circumcise females in the U.S. except for diagnosed medical conditions.


http://www.cirp.org/library/statistics/bollinger2003/

[nini02]

Thank you so much!

[Galatea]

One of the threads you need this for got shut down anyway.

[nini02]

Originally Posted by Galatea

One of the threads you need this for got shut down anyway.

Darn it, I noticed that What happened? I didn't notice anything worth deleting the thread over last time I checked it....

[Galatea]

Originally Posted by nini02

Darn it, I noticed that What happened? I didn't notice anything worth deleting the thread over last time I checked it....

I cross posted. I need help in the other one, though.