The United Nations estimates that approximately 132 million girls and women have been subjected to some form of female genital cutting (FGC). About two million girls are at risk annually, many of them too young to have any say about the procedure that is inflicted upon them (Toubia 1998, 10). The large majority of these girls reside in the 28 African countries where FGC is prevalent, but with the emergence of a significant African diaspora globally, the incidence in the West o…