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How women led a dramatic about-face on FGM in Gambia
For generations, the women of the Bah family didn’t hesitate. They sent their daughters to be cut, just as they had been cut as young girls. As the Bahs understood it, cutting – a practice known internationally as female genital mutilation, or FGM – was a …