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Kwadwo 9 years ago

FGM must be banned immediately.

FGM must be banned immediately.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

Fellow CPP members and its sympathizers, if you think you can find a safe Heaven with the " Y3n Akanfuo " Npp Motorbikes thieves terrorist groups, then you are lying to yourselves. The Npp hate Nkrumah , his legacies and his ...
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Fellow CPP members and its sympathizers, if you think you can find a safe Heaven with the " Y3n Akanfuo " Npp Motorbikes thieves terrorist groups, then you are lying to yourselves. The Npp hate Nkrumah , his legacies and his followers, giving your Vote to the Npp is like giving your last bullets to your enemies, Npp is looking for the best way possibly to scrap " NKRUMAH " from the History of this country ( GHANA ) and replace him with that of their terrorist JBD. VOTE President Mahama and his NDC PARTY for safety and upgrade ( Kwame Nkrumah " in his Grave.
Concernier 9 years ago

Why not making it a law to jail and fine any parent who cut their baby girl. This practice disgraces Africans a lot, especially here in America. Most of these women even feel ashamed to see a gynecologist, because Some of the ...
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Why not making it a law to jail and fine any parent who cut their baby girl. This practice disgraces Africans a lot, especially here in America. Most of these women even feel ashamed to see a gynecologist, because Some of these American doctors gawks at their patient when they come across this horrible practice. Let all of us fight to stop this selfish practice.
Tardi Beauty 9 years ago

If we are to jail, then i bet we may have to jail most men in the north, especially upper east and Upper West. They seem to be out of touch with the prevailing realities in this modern age. Whoever performs this is i guess is ...
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If we are to jail, then i bet we may have to jail most men in the north, especially upper east and Upper West. They seem to be out of touch with the prevailing realities in this modern age. Whoever performs this is i guess is impotent or an alien.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

Author:-SARPONG...
Ethiopia is building three new airports at a total cost of $64.5 million. Ghana is extending Kumasi airporf runway with lightening for night landing at a cost of 29 million dollars, "hoohoo" Haba, Mahama, ...
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Author:-SARPONG...
Ethiopia is building three new airports at a total cost of $64.5 million. Ghana is extending Kumasi airporf runway with lightening for night landing at a cost of 29 million dollars, "hoohoo" Haba, Mahama, stop this stealing, it is too much.
Adjei 9 years ago

I dated this beautiful lady from Chad whose clit I found missing. She is very affectionate, would not refuse sex but always tried to make me rub hard where the clit used to be. She would try rubbing herself but seemed frustra ...
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I dated this beautiful lady from Chad whose clit I found missing. She is very affectionate, would not refuse sex but always tried to make me rub hard where the clit used to be. She would try rubbing herself but seemed frustrated after a while. She wanted to enjoy as much as I was but seemed not being able to. Also the thing looked 'empty' and did not look right, but it was really good and, couple with her absolute beauty, I was always going for it, though I felt guilty that she was not enjoying it as much as I was.

So stop the barbaric act!!!
The lone prophet of Jehovah 9 years ago

They should what God has made likewise Abortion.Ghanaians cannot create yet they destroy God's creation human beings.God will judge those destroyers.STOP THE TERRORIST ACT NOW.

They should what God has made likewise Abortion.Ghanaians cannot create yet they destroy God's creation human beings.God will judge those destroyers.STOP THE TERRORIST ACT NOW.
Close Observer 9 years ago

GHANAIANS have given 26 years out of the country's 58 years to the NDC PARTY. We have seen nothing, but USELESS RULE. VOTE THEM OUT IN 2016

YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLANS TO BANK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEFORE THEY QUIT ...
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GHANAIANS have given 26 years out of the country's 58 years to the NDC PARTY. We have seen nothing, but USELESS RULE. VOTE THEM OUT IN 2016

YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLANS TO BANK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEFORE THEY QUIT POLITICS TO LEAD YOU; they won't have time for you, they will be taking care of their own.
NEITHER DO YOU WANT PEOPLE WHO WILL WEAR LADIES GARMENT ON FOREIGN TRIPS.
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DISGRACE YOU.
To get your life back and be respected all over the world VOTE NDC OUT IN 2016
VOTE THE CLUELESS, NO VISION, IDEAS STARVED AND HOPELESS YOUNG MAN OUT IN 2016.
Nyansaba 9 years ago

BBC NEWS!!!!!!!, You are a HYPOCRITE, working for the NDC. It's a shame on you with all the difficulties we find ourselves in today, you tend to still want to convince people to vote for the NDC! I believe you are making your ...
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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!, You are a HYPOCRITE, working for the NDC. It's a shame on you with all the difficulties we find ourselves in today, you tend to still want to convince people to vote for the NDC! I believe you are making yourself rich with NDC in power that is why you are following them and doing everything possible to convince people to vote for them just for your selfish gain at the expense of the suffering masses. You are a disgrace to education and civilization!
Patel 9 years ago

Most of them are engaged in extramarital affairs. Sex, sex and more sex is their hobby. Yet these are the "honourable" men and women whose shinning example we should copy!

Most of them are engaged in extramarital affairs. Sex, sex and more sex is their hobby. Yet these are the "honourable" men and women whose shinning example we should copy!
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

Dont go near a woman who has not removed that thing.It is the source of all the prostitution. Doing it the crude way is barbaric. But can be done safely in hospitals.

Please, avoid un-FGMed woman because they are dirty.

Dont go near a woman who has not removed that thing.It is the source of all the prostitution. Doing it the crude way is barbaric. But can be done safely in hospitals.

Please, avoid un-FGMed woman because they are dirty.
Master Kwaku 9 years ago

Go to Ethiopia! There, the girls who have had FGM jeer those who have not as "Promiscuous". With this cultural mindset, how can one eradicate the practice? It requires LOTS of education, especially, among the women themelves!

Go to Ethiopia! There, the girls who have had FGM jeer those who have not as "Promiscuous". With this cultural mindset, how can one eradicate the practice? It requires LOTS of education, especially, among the women themelves!
I & l 9 years ago

Now you sound like a big ape.

Now you sound like a big ape.
Debs 9 years ago

it's even d un-FGMed women who want nothing to do with d likes of you, mr "clean"!

it's even d un-FGMed women who want nothing to do with d likes of you, mr "clean"!
Lucy B 9 years ago

VERY important discussion but was degraded into a sex education.

VERY important discussion but was degraded into a sex education.
adacf 9 years ago

The vulnerable now have a voice in Parliament. Mps in the Northern regions should advocate the eradication of this barbaric act to young females. Hammer this into the ears of the regional health minister in the North to act t ...
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The vulnerable now have a voice in Parliament. Mps in the Northern regions should advocate the eradication of this barbaric act to young females. Hammer this into the ears of the regional health minister in the North to act today and not tomorrow.
CASTRO 9 years ago

THIS IS PURE IGNORANCE. GENITAL CIRCUMSITION IS NOT WIDESPREAD IN THE NORTH. THOSE WHO PRACTICE GC IN THE NORTH ARE MOSTLY PERSONS FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER. BELIEVE ME DAGOMBAS, SISSALAS, KASENAS, GONJAS, MAMPRUSIS, ETC ALL N ...
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THIS IS PURE IGNORANCE. GENITAL CIRCUMSITION IS NOT WIDESPREAD IN THE NORTH. THOSE WHO PRACTICE GC IN THE NORTH ARE MOSTLY PERSONS FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER. BELIEVE ME DAGOMBAS, SISSALAS, KASENAS, GONJAS, MAMPRUSIS, ETC ALL NORTHERN TRIBES DO NOT PRACTICE IT. ON THE OTHER HAND I KNOW MANY ZONGO TRIBES IN ACCRA THAT DO SO.
SULTAN 9 years ago

Another Arabic bullshit foisted on ignorant Africans.They did not leave anything positive in colonizing our cousins.They are awash with billions yet they do not give a shit about the Africans.Give them the Koran and Ishallah ...
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Another Arabic bullshit foisted on ignorant Africans.They did not leave anything positive in colonizing our cousins.They are awash with billions yet they do not give a shit about the Africans.Give them the Koran and Ishallah every thing would be alright.
Umar 9 years ago

FGM is not Islamic. Please. It is a cultural thing so mentioning the Qur'an does not help with your argument. You should have stayed with your arabs comment but that too is a bit racist since there are records of FGM among Af ...
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FGM is not Islamic. Please. It is a cultural thing so mentioning the Qur'an does not help with your argument. You should have stayed with your arabs comment but that too is a bit racist since there are records of FGM among Africans before the Arab invasion of North and Western Africa. It is just a bad practice, don't try to make it a religious issue. Ethiopia has one of the largest rates of FGM and it happens among their largely Christian population(62%).
Bugri 9 years ago

You're aiding and abetting a criminal practice. You have a duty and a responsibility to report those who cross our borders to commit crimes in Ghana. Expose them the alien criminals!

You're aiding and abetting a criminal practice. You have a duty and a responsibility to report those who cross our borders to commit crimes in Ghana. Expose them the alien criminals!
Damani Kariku Katum Kunari III 9 years ago

So long as men Circumcixed , to be clean,why can't female go under circumcision ? The MP's should stop wasting tax payers toiled money.

So long as men Circumcixed , to be clean,why can't female go under circumcision ? The MP's should stop wasting tax payers toiled money.
Umar 9 years ago

For men, it is mostly on health grounds. For women, it is a moral issue for women, it is a control issue. So to protect women, it must be discussed and eradicated. It is not a waste of time.

For men, it is mostly on health grounds. For women, it is a moral issue for women, it is a control issue. So to protect women, it must be discussed and eradicated. It is not a waste of time.
True Talk 9 years ago

Arrest the parents of the victims and ensure they are severely punished.

Arrest the parents of the victims and ensure they are severely punished.
john 9 years ago

What a disgrace

What a disgrace
Umar 9 years ago

Why is it a disgrace?

Why is it a disgrace?
Busumbru 9 years ago

What is the disgrace about about discussing an oppressive, disgusting, out-moded. dehumanising custom in parliament? We are soon getting into the post-computer age. Our thinking and everything must correspond to healthy cha ...
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What is the disgrace about about discussing an oppressive, disgusting, out-moded. dehumanising custom in parliament? We are soon getting into the post-computer age. Our thinking and everything must correspond to healthy change.
Umar 9 years ago

Please don't bastardize the conversation with religious arguments. FGM is not Islamic. Please. It is a cultural thing so mentioning the Qur'an does not help with your argument. You should have stayed with your arabs comment b ...
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Please don't bastardize the conversation with religious arguments. FGM is not Islamic. Please. It is a cultural thing so mentioning the Qur'an does not help with your argument. You should have stayed with your arabs comment but that too is a bit racist since there are records of FGM among Africans before the Arab invasion of North and Western Africa. It is just a bad practice, don't try to make it a religious issue. Ethiopia has one of the largest rates of FGM and it happens among their largely Christian population.

And please those arguing that if men are circumsised so should women don't know what they are talking about. Male circumcision is largely good for health but female circumcision is done for moral reasons and to control ladies. That is why it must be opposed.
Adjua 9 years ago

FGM is senseless and barbaric and must be criminalised immediately. It is mainly carried out by women, who having undergone it themselves are hell bent on making sure others undergo the same nightmare. They easiest way to st ...
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FGM is senseless and barbaric and must be criminalised immediately. It is mainly carried out by women, who having undergone it themselves are hell bent on making sure others undergo the same nightmare. They easiest way to stop this practice will be through crimilisation, education and vigilance.
Adjua 9 years ago

By the way, how many women do we have in Africa for 140 million of us to have been circumcised?

By the way, how many women do we have in Africa for 140 million of us to have been circumcised?
Lt Gen Lizard 9 years ago

about 550million women!

about 550million women!
Salifu 9 years ago

Female circumcision is a very unnecessary practice. It most negative impact is it kills the self confidence of it victims, mainly because of the stupid perception that these women can not enjoy sex, bla bla rubbish. How can t ...
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Female circumcision is a very unnecessary practice. It most negative impact is it kills the self confidence of it victims, mainly because of the stupid perception that these women can not enjoy sex, bla bla rubbish. How can that be true??? Anyone who want to comment on the practice she get themselves well educated on it & stop helping spread this ignorant perception that women who have it done can't enjoy sex. Anyone who says that don't know anything about sex
Lt Gen Lizard 9 years ago

salifu,circmcision in both men and women is wrong!!!

salifu,circmcision in both men and women is wrong!!!
Joe Turkey 9 years ago

"The ladies will tell you that for sex to be pleasurable to both the lady and the man, it is for the clitoris to be intact". I wonder how many women he has "interviewed". An why Ghana is struggling to find a solution to inade ...
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"The ladies will tell you that for sex to be pleasurable to both the lady and the man, it is for the clitoris to be intact". I wonder how many women he has "interviewed". An why Ghana is struggling to find a solution to inadequate energy problem, parliament (with 24/7 power supply) is talking clitoris
ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

he fornicate too much

he fornicate too much
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

The nervous young bride became irritated by her husband's lusty advances on their wedding night and reprimanded him severely. "I demand proper manners in bed," she declared, "just as I do at the dinner table."Amused by his wi ...
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The nervous young bride became irritated by her husband's lusty advances on their wedding night and reprimanded him severely. "I demand proper manners in bed," she declared, "just as I do at the dinner table."Amused by his wife's formality, the groom smoothed his rumpled hair and climbed quietly between the sheets. "Is that better?" he asked, with a hint of a smile." "Yes," replied the girl, "much better." "Very good, darling," the husband whispered. "Now would you be so kind as to please pass the pussy.
Osuo Abrubuor 9 years ago

Good!

Good!
KYEBI ADVOCATE 9 years ago

Ghana parliament is very nonsense go to that area and educate them,
Did we have age limit for Ghana Muslims and others to marry .
Think about the growing population, and crime rate in the country and put a LEGISLATION to ...
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Ghana parliament is very nonsense go to that area and educate them,
Did we have age limit for Ghana Muslims and others to marry .
Think about the growing population, and crime rate in the country and put a LEGISLATION to stop GUNS and TOYS guns importation in the country in other to reduce the number CRIME
KYEBI ADVOCATE 9 years ago

Ghana parliament is very nonsense go to that area and educate them,
Did we have age limit for Ghana Muslims and others to marry .
Think about the growing population, and crime rate in the country and put a LEGISLATION to ...
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Ghana parliament is very nonsense go to that area and educate them,
Did we have age limit for Ghana Muslims and others to marry .
Think about the growing population, and crime rate in the country and put a LEGISLATION to BANNED GUNS and TOYS guns importation in the country in other to reduce the number CRIME
FULL OF MEDIOCRITY 9 years ago

Ghana's parliament is a place for fun fair and merry making.The issue of FGM is an important topic to discuss but why waste so much time in talking about it when there are even more burning issues to discuss.The substance of ...
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Ghana's parliament is a place for fun fair and merry making.The issue of FGM is an important topic to discuss but why waste so much time in talking about it when there are even more burning issues to discuss.The substance of the topic FGM was made nonsense of by zooming into sex and sexual gratification when they are serious medical and psychosocial problems related to the practice that were never mentioned.I am surprised MPs know the practice is prevalent in the upper region but what modalities or interventions are MPs in those areas putting in place to curb the practice?We have female MPs in the upper west who rode on the back of women's rights to sit in parliament redundant and dump-founded.I wonder if they are knowledgeable enough to understand some of these problems discussed not to even think of solving them.Easy access to parliament by any Tom,Dick and Harry implies politics of underachievement and mediocrity.We have allowed ourselves to be bunch of idiots represented by idiots without accountability.Unfortunately politics is a game of critical thinkers not jokers as pertaining in Ghana.Ghana's politics is a victim of an inversion in fortune where knowledgeable technocrats distance themselves because of the dirty nature of our politics.Simply put we don't have the best of brains in politics and hence the myriad of problems confronting the country.
Osman Ruby 9 years ago

Is too barbaric the government should try and abolished it

Is too barbaric the government should try and abolished it
Cano 9 years ago

Silly topic...wont they discuss economic issues? Lame house! Truely african!

Silly topic...wont they discuss economic issues? Lame house! Truely african!
Mohammed Al-Bakr 9 years ago

Ghanaian women with their clits intact are very disrespectful and arrogant. Its for the good of society to have a policy for every woman's clit to be cut.

This would bring discipline sanity back into society.

Ghanaian women with their clits intact are very disrespectful and arrogant. Its for the good of society to have a policy for every woman's clit to be cut.

This would bring discipline sanity back into society.
Debs 9 years ago

you asshole!

you asshole!
if the lone crusader 9 years ago

Have the state collected the millions bissiw gave her pastor to hide? Instead of chassing imf for thier wahalla monnies? Northners our bro. And sisters upon all these educations free of charge ghana has given you do we have t ...
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Have the state collected the millions bissiw gave her pastor to hide? Instead of chassing imf for thier wahalla monnies? Northners our bro. And sisters upon all these educations free of charge ghana has given you do we have to waste time onthis? Sisters these men forcing you into that nonsense will later on bang you for a lady from the south who has never seen nife.so thinkas your life is godgiven
OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF ISLAM, THIS IS MY QUESTION. ISIS, AL QAEDA, AL SHABAB, BOKO HARAM, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, WHY? NOW THOSE MOSLEM MPS, MUNTAKA, NITIWUL OR WHATEVER, C ...
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CAN ANYTHING GOOD COME OUT OF ISLAM, THIS IS MY QUESTION. ISIS, AL QAEDA, AL SHABAB, BOKO HARAM, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, WHY? NOW THOSE MOSLEM MPS, MUNTAKA, NITIWUL OR WHATEVER, CAN THEY SAY THEY WILL ENSURE THAT THEIR FEMALE CHILDREN WILL NOT BE CIRCUMCISED? ISLAM IS TOO BACKWARD, TOO FANATIC, TOO RADICAL, BUT LESS PROGRESSIVE.
Boamah Gyamerah 9 years ago

Parliament must pass a bill making Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)a criminal act in Ghana. In that case offenders will be prosecuted and if found guilty will be punished by law. People should not be allowed to abused childre ...
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Parliament must pass a bill making Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)a criminal act in Ghana. In that case offenders will be prosecuted and if found guilty will be punished by law. People should not be allowed to abused children with such fatal consequencies for the rest of their lives in the name of tradition. Such negative traditions must be forbidden.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

Little kwame walks in on his mother in the bathtub. He asks his mother what is the big fuzzy patch below her bellybutton. She replies, "A bush."

The next day Little Kwame walks in on his father while he's in the shower. He ...
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Little kwame walks in on his mother in the bathtub. He asks his mother what is the big fuzzy patch below her bellybutton. She replies, "A bush."

The next day Little Kwame walks in on his father while he's in the shower. He asks, "What is that big long thing hanging between your legs?" His father replies, "It is a snake."

A few days later, Little Kwame walks in on his mother, once again in the bathtub. He asks, "What are those two baggy things hanging above your bellybutton?" She replies, "Headlights."

A couple weeks go by and the little boy walks in on his parents having sex. He yells, "Mom, turn on your headlights! The snake is crawling into your bush!
oppong london 9 years ago

you ndc n cpp supporters of nkrumah,why do you always wait till the whites bring something before you know is bad,have ghanaian politicians got brains at all,until recently the europeans brought this argument out has enlighte ...
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you ndc n cpp supporters of nkrumah,why do you always wait till the whites bring something before you know is bad,have ghanaian politicians got brains at all,until recently the europeans brought this argument out has enlightened, ghanaians it,s bad.why did you fight for independence if we wait for the whites to do everything. but corruption has become your food ,you don,t copy the white people of their good things.
JB Mann 9 years ago

... and a BIG one for asking the deputy minority leader to provide scientific basis for his argument ...

Mr Anthony Akoto Osei, even if women do not need the clitoris during sexual intercourse , it is morally wrong to muti ...
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... and a BIG one for asking the deputy minority leader to provide scientific basis for his argument ...

Mr Anthony Akoto Osei, even if women do not need the clitoris during sexual intercourse , it is morally wrong to mutilate the flesh of another person.

All these twerps are law makers in Ghana, so imagine what's going on there.
KOOBOY 9 years ago

CUTTING OFF FEMALE CLITORIS AND TRIBAL MARKS ARE NOT ONLY BARBARIC BUT MIND BOGGLING. THESE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED COMPLETELY AND IMMEDIATELY.THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS OUT DR. BISIW

CUTTING OFF FEMALE CLITORIS AND TRIBAL MARKS ARE NOT ONLY BARBARIC BUT MIND BOGGLING. THESE SHOULD BE ABOLISHED COMPLETELY AND IMMEDIATELY.THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS OUT DR. BISIW
Bombaclat 9 years ago

This is not a joking matter. Why the hell should women be deprived of sexual pleasure just because of some strange reasoning from men? Nonsense!!

This is not a joking matter. Why the hell should women be deprived of sexual pleasure just because of some strange reasoning from men? Nonsense!!
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

It's done amongst those barbarics. This found in the north ghana and other countries in Africa. Most north woman have no feels during sexual intercourse because their clitoris cannot be massage since it's been cut off. Sad h ...
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It's done amongst those barbarics. This found in the north ghana and other countries in Africa. Most north woman have no feels during sexual intercourse because their clitoris cannot be massage since it's been cut off. Sad huh!
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

This is done

This is done
Salifu 9 years ago

You are IGNORANT.

You are IGNORANT.
Nana Yaw Mensah 9 years ago

We should not spend time insisting where both should stand this does not call for lenghty arquement what both should come together should also be our power problems we are facing as a nation.Parliaments cant we decide to canc ...
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We should not spend time insisting where both should stand this does not call for lenghty arquement what both should come together should also be our power problems we are facing as a nation.Parliaments cant we decide to cancell the electricity deal with Togo and other counterparts
GBEWAA 9 years ago

WHILE GHANAIANS ARE TOILING TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND ALSO BRAVE THE SCOURGE OF DUMSOR-DUMSOR IN GHANA, JUST LOOK AT WHAT THESE FOOLS ARE PAID TO WASTE TIME DISCUSSING IN GHANA'S "PARLIAMENT".

NO WONDER SOME OF THEM EAT TUWO Z ...
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WHILE GHANAIANS ARE TOILING TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND ALSO BRAVE THE SCOURGE OF DUMSOR-DUMSOR IN GHANA, JUST LOOK AT WHAT THESE FOOLS ARE PAID TO WASTE TIME DISCUSSING IN GHANA'S "PARLIAMENT".

NO WONDER SOME OF THEM EAT TUWO ZAFI IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT!

USELESS PEOPLE! YAKA GBEMEI!!
Lt Gen Lizard 9 years ago

This about the health of our women so the time for discusion is worth it!!!

This about the health of our women so the time for discusion is worth it!!!
Antef 9 years ago

Has the Celestial Mechanics been reduced to erotica/porn?

What has "Magnitude" "Apparent magnitude" and "Absolute Magnitude" got to do with the Female Genitalia and its aesthetic allure and profusions?

That the Parliame ...
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Has the Celestial Mechanics been reduced to erotica/porn?

What has "Magnitude" "Apparent magnitude" and "Absolute Magnitude" got to do with the Female Genitalia and its aesthetic allure and profusions?

That the Parliament United should awaken us from the contemplation of the galaxies and the luminosity of their inhabitants, in order to foist on us the mundane dredges of the intrigues of the Politicos and their "Antagonistas" on Earth, is symptomatic of the [de]generation in our pallets and sensibilities.

"That it is, and cannot be, is the path of persuasion. For truth accompanies it. But that it, it is not, and must not be, this I tell you, is a path devoid of knowledge."

The question we should be asking is, has the practice brought any major and significant improvement in the lives of the women so treated ? What do the women themselves say? Do they want their offsprings to through it too?
Kofi 9 years ago

Hannah Bissiw and Nitiwul should have demonstrated how to have good sex in the house.

Hannah Bissiw and Nitiwul should have demonstrated how to have good sex in the house.
Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 9 years ago

Little-Known Surgery Restores Sexual Pleasure To Female Genital Mutilation Victims

The Huffington Post
Eleanor Goldberg

Female genital mutilation is on the rise in the U.S., and a number of doctors here are ramp ...
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Little-Known Surgery Restores Sexual Pleasure To Female Genital Mutilation Victims

The Huffington Post
Eleanor Goldberg

Female genital mutilation is on the rise in the U.S., and a number of doctors here are ramping up their efforts to reverse the damage the practice causes with a relatively new restorative surgery.

Friday marks the U.N.’s International Day of Zero Toleration to Female Genital Mutilation, and a new report found that the risks for girls and women in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2000. But there is renewed hope for females who have been cut as more physicians are offering clitoroplasty, which restores clitoral function.

While reconstructive surgery has long been available, about 10 years ago, French physician Dr. Pierre Foldes pioneered a procedure, which rebuilds the damaged area and rejuvenates the nerve networks so that patients can regain sensitivity and in some cases, attain orgasm, according to the U.N.

"It can certainly improve women's pleasure and lessen their pain," Foldes said in a statement in 2012 after studying the results of 3,000 such surgeries. "It also allows mutilated women to recover their identity."

During the one-year follow-up, most patients reported experiencing less pain or at least no worsening pain, and 81 percent said their sex lives had improved, according to a study published in The Lancet.

While the surgery proved effective, Foldes also noted at the time that it was cost prohibitive and needed to become more readily available for the girls and women who are eager to get it.

More than 130 girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM, which involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia and has no medical benefit. The number of women and girls who are at risk in the U.S. has more than doubled to half a million over the past 15 years, according to a study released on Friday by the Population Reference Bureau.

The nonprofit attributes the concerning increase to a rise in immigration from African countries.

FGM poses a slew of health risks, including causing damage to adjacent organs, recurring urinary tract infections, birth complications, the formation of dermoid cysts and, in some cases, can lead to death.

Girls are typically cut before the onset of puberty, with the goal of making them remain virgins before marriage and faithful to their husbands once they wed, according to UNICEF.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly called on all countries to eliminate the practice. But in countries where it’s widely practiced, FGM shows no sign of slowing down.

In Egypt and Somalia, for example, more than 90 percent of the female population is affected by the tradition.

Realizing the overwhelming need of women who have undergone FGM, Dr. Marci Bowers, a renowned expert in transgender surgery, according to the BBC, now devotes a portion of her practice in California to performing clitoroplasty.

She trained with Foldes in France and did her first clitoral repair surgery in the U.S. in 2009. Since then, she's done about 100 such procedures, according to The Washington Post.

Bowers was the subject of a VICE News documentary, "The Cut That Heals," which was released on Friday.

Ayan, a 32-year-old nurse who was cut in Somalia when she was 6, is a patient of Bowers and was featured in the film. She fled for the United States in the '90s and had been too "ashamed" to see an OB-GYN before she met Bowers.

Before the surgery, she told Vice she felt "OK" about her body, barring the "particular issue she wants reversed."

Ayan said she is a virgin and plans on remaining so until she gets married. But she doesn’t need the pain and the scars from the FGM procedure to be "reminded to be pure."

Bowers performs the procedure, which takes less than an hour, for free. Patients just have to pay the operating room and anesthesia fees, according to her website.

But she says the surgery is about much more than just enabling women to feel sexual pleasure.

"The number one reason is restoration of identity," she told The Washington Post. "They want their body back and to feel more normal. It’s about not being different any more."

Six weeks after the surgery, Ayan wrote in an essay for Vice that her menstrual cramps had already eased up and that she’s "healing beautifully."

"I was immediately overcome by a feeling of completeness," she wrote. "It was an unfamiliar feeling."
Dongo Yaro 9 years ago

Why even discuss this when it's the women who knows better, over here in America, some of our African women refused to see gynecologist, it is a shame for men like you to discussed it, and besides I thought we don't even do t ...
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Why even discuss this when it's the women who knows better, over here in America, some of our African women refused to see gynecologist, it is a shame for men like you to discussed it, and besides I thought we don't even do that in Ghana, with two president from the north and FGM is still being done, I am afraid the north still need education
WISE GBADAGLO 9 years ago

KILL THIS FGM BEFORE IT KILLS OUR WOMEN, LEGISLATORS MUST INCRIMINATE THIS TRADITION.
OUR NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS MUST REVIEW ALL CULTURAL PRACTICES THAT POSES THREAT TO HUMAN FREEDOM AND FUTURE LAURELS.

THEY MUST STOP N ...
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KILL THIS FGM BEFORE IT KILLS OUR WOMEN, LEGISLATORS MUST INCRIMINATE THIS TRADITION.
OUR NATIONAL HOUSE OF CHIEFS MUST REVIEW ALL CULTURAL PRACTICES THAT POSES THREAT TO HUMAN FREEDOM AND FUTURE LAURELS.

THEY MUST STOP NOW.
I CANT AFFORD TO HAVE A CLITORIS-LESS WIFE.

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