Ino Kehrer: Cuts into Children’s Future: a Comparative Analysis between FGM, Male Circumcision and Intersex Genital Surgeries

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    • Ino Kehrer: Cuts into Children’s Future: a Comparative Analysis between FGM, Male Circumcision and Intersex Genital Surgeries

      Meanwhile, considering the absence of demonstrated medical benefits,
      and where such practices lack any therapeutic justification and are thus
      neither necessary nor urgent, they should be postponed at least until the
      children could be personally involved, express their views, and finally grant
      their informed consent. Such postponement would not be only in line with
      art. 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child as it would allow to
      the involved children to express their views but even the approach with
      the minimum of risk, in that it avoids both the risks of the surgery and
      that a third party limits the range of choices available to them when they
      become adults through an irreversible intervention in order to secure an
      upbringing in accordance with certain religious, cultural, or social beliefs.
      The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has indeed already affirmed
      that ‘cultural identity cannot excuse or justify the perpetuation by decision-
      makers and authorities of traditions and cultural values that deny the child
      or children the rights guaranteed by the Convention’ (Committee on the
      Rights of the Children 2013, 14).

      It is indeed of great importance to protect the child’s right to an open
      future by sheltering those ‘rights in trust’ that, as Feinberg stated, should be
      saved for when the child will reach adulthood (Feinberg 1992).
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