Immigrant women share some of their most personal sorrows, including female circumcision. From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 6, 1999| Author: Harvey, Kay | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Some call it ``cutting the rose.''

The term is a veiled reference to a widespread practice of paring away parts of a girl's genitals _ usually in crude conditions and without anesthesia _ to render her ``clean'' in her culture's eyes.

Practiced in many African, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries, the procedure that affects an estimated 130 million of the world's women is more often called female circumcision. A growing number of pe...

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